Comments on: EC Principle 2: Windows Must Not Provide a Technical Advantage to IE http://blog.lizardwrangler.com/2009/03/18/ec-principle-2-windows-must-not-provide-a-technical-advantage-to-ie/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:41:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: steve http://blog.lizardwrangler.com/2009/03/18/ec-principle-2-windows-must-not-provide-a-technical-advantage-to-ie/comment-page-1/#comment-11372 steve Thu, 09 Apr 2009 20:04:29 +0000 http://blog.lizardwrangler.com/?p=1064#comment-11372 I'm not sure how embedded this is in Windows but I can open hyperlinks from a variety of applications in Windows. Some applications correctly open my "default browser" and others "hard code" links to open in Internet Explorer. The MSDN documentation *should* be quite clear (it may be, I haven't checked) that the *preferred* option is to send link requests to open in the end-users' default browser. It bothers me greatly as an end user that the first thing I need to do is copy the URL from Internet Explorer to my default browser in order to get a better browsing experience. I’m not sure how embedded this is in Windows but I can open hyperlinks from a variety of applications in Windows. Some applications correctly open my “default browser” and others “hard code” links to open in Internet Explorer.

The MSDN documentation *should* be quite clear (it may be, I haven’t checked) that the *preferred* option is to send link requests to open in the end-users’ default browser.

It bothers me greatly as an end user that the first thing I need to do is copy the URL from Internet Explorer to my default browser in order to get a better browsing experience.

]]> By: Aqualon http://blog.lizardwrangler.com/2009/03/18/ec-principle-2-windows-must-not-provide-a-technical-advantage-to-ie/comment-page-1/#comment-10284 Aqualon Thu, 19 Mar 2009 22:54:25 +0000 http://blog.lizardwrangler.com/?p=1064#comment-10284 "Making information available to IE before or differently than that information is available to others." Can you give further explanations, what information you're talking about? “Making information available to IE before or differently than that information is available to others.”

Can you give further explanations, what information you’re talking about?

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