Microsoft Advice User to Uninstall Netscape 8
Filed in: Microsoft — May 29th, 2005
Microsoft is advising users of Netscape 8 to either uninstall the software or to edit their computer’s registry files because of a bug in America Online’s(AOL) new browser. According to a Microsoft engineer, Netscape 8 disables the XML (Extensible Markup Language) rendering capabilities in Internet Explorer, meaning that some Web pages will not be visible in IE after Netscape 8 is installed.
In a Thursday posting to the Internet Explorer Web log, Microsoft’s Dave Massy, senior program manager for Internet Explorer, said that his company had confirmed the problem, which had previously been reported on Internet newsgroups and forums. “If you navigate in IE to an XML file such as an RSS feed… rather than seeing the data you are presented with a blank page,” he wrote. RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is a format widely used to keep track of updates to Web sites.
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May 29th, 2005 at 10:39 pm
Yeah, die Netscape, die!