IE removed from spoon.net

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by mawaldne • 16 years ago

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mawaldne2• 16 years ago

Thanks Microsoft. This was a great service and really helped cross browser testing for IE.

babyboy8082• 16 years ago

Wow, What a move by MS, Well bloody done :|

wccrawford• 16 years ago

Are they trying to make IE obsolete?

I know this is probably a move by the lawyers, and the browser-promotion folks probably don't even know about it yet, but seriously... If you want to promote your (free!) browser, you have to make life easy for developers.

lenni2• 16 years ago

They are trying to force people who develop websites for IE (which applies to 95%) to buy a copy of windows.

babyboy8082• 16 years ago

I don't think so mate as they have offer an ISO image + XP for example for developers, but Spoon was so much easier!

nym• 16 years ago

You can get evaluation copies of windows to run IE in for debugging free from Microsoft. My big complaint is that I don't want to run a VM for every browser.

It appears as if the IE exe's made by Xenocode still work. I don't have a link for them, I'm not sure if they're hosted anywhere still.

deutronium• 16 years ago

'Winetricks' makes it pretty easy to install IE on linux, as well as a bunch of other handy windows programs.

mattmanser• 16 years ago

Duplicate:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1905967

mawaldne2• 16 years ago

My bad.

dstein• 16 years ago

What's really nice about web development (especially mobile) these days is we're quickly reaching a threshold where dropping all support for IE is becoming a very real possibility.

Anything Microsoft does to accelerate their own obsolescence should be encouraged.

Encosia• 16 years ago

When I heard this news, I assumed it was related to something like the licensing agreements Microsoft has with third parties, rather than their simply being spitefully "evil". If they licensed H.264, for example, surely that license would stipulate boundaries to avoid every browser using the "IE video plugin" to render H.264 and circumvent the patent.

IE removed from spoon.net

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