How to make friends with XP sp2 users.

Now if only we could get a ton of websites to have that hack in it

I thought this was truly a thread about making friends with PC people. We can make friends with our PC-using acquaintances much more easily now: All we have to tell them is that soon we too will be using Intel-based PCs. </rimshot>

Incredible. Really Incredible.

It's not incredible, it's normal. Windows has some pretty strange bugs in it, especially since this bug doesn't affect the latest Firefox or Opera versions, but does affect the older ones and IE.

That said, for a bit of sobriety: Check out software update for Apple's latest round of bug patches in Panther and Tiger.

So that it gets fixed.

Really, putting that in a webpage with the intention of crashing any Windows XP computers is just childish.

I already use a PC. It's an Apple Macintosh personal computer.

I see some of us are still cranky from this week's announcement.

Zing! How darn tootin correct of you. One of my biggest beefs. In close second are people who still call things IBM compatible.

I don't know about Opera, but it does in fact affect the latest version of Firefox. We tested it on a colleague yesterday (it was voluntary).

Me? I'm always cranky.

Nah, I was poking fun at someone else here, whom I respect greatly, even though he's become seduced by the dark side.

I look at this as yet another proof that much of (if not all of) what we think of as the downside of Windows computing is because of problems in the OS, not the hardware. I am looking forward to seeing OS X run rings around Windows on similarly equipped (actually comparing Apples to apples, so to speak!) computers.

Building the current Windows OS around their HTML rendering engine made Microsoft's codebase a bit smaller, but as a tradeoff they got the fact that you can crash the computer by just exceeding the boundaries of the rendering engine. Spaghetti code has obviously caused Windows indigestion!

Crankily yours,
Theo