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IE Sends Mozilla a New Cake for Firefox 3

June 17th, 2008 Posted in Humor, Mozilla, Technology

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Sean from Microsoft came by just a few minutes ago to drop off a cake for the Internet Explorer team. As people may recall, the IE team sent Mozilla a cake after Firefox 2 shipped and it seems that they wanted to continue the tradition.

Sean and I used to work together and I happened to be the one that saw him as he came in so he presented the cake to me and John Lilly and we then took it around to staff. I think people found it amusing and the “E” portion of the Firefox 2 cake, which is preserved in our freezer to this day, was pulled out for comparison. I must say, the new cake is much nicer (and much less brown) than the old one.

Here are a couple of photos from Rob:

Me with the Cake

Closeup of the Cake

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Michael 5 months ago 1 point
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That looks like one heck of a delicious cake. Really nice of them!

Brian 5 months ago 1 point
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What, no dropping a large "e" on their lawn this time?

anon 5 months ago 1 point
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The cake.

It's a lie

Jaime 5 months ago 1 point
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IT'S A TRAP!

Lucas 5 months ago 1 point
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The cake is probably poisoned. :D

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Simon Foxe 5 months ago 1 point
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... There is no cake.

Al Billings 5 months ago 1 point
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Yes, the Cake is a Lie.

<img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2365/2203028513_d79c6d6315.jpg"></img>

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Jack 5 months ago 1 point
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The irony of Sean giving you the cake is thick. :)

Al Billings 5 months ago 1 point
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Yes, Jack, I would agree. He got this big grin on his face and said, "I think I need to give this to you" when he came in with it. Seriously, I was just randomly near the door when he came in, passing by. John Lilly, our CEO, happened to be there too.

I think it is pretty ironic but I was also no longer on the IE team when the last cake was sent. That would have made it more ironic. :-)

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x 5 months ago 1 point
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By the time the cake arrived, it already had several vulnerabilities in the wild.

The Dude Dean 5 months ago 1 point
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Thats the funniest thing I have seen in a long time. I would be very wary of boobie traps in that cake if I were the mozilla team.

http://my.mashable.com/thedudedean

Alex Vincent 5 months ago 1 point
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When they get around to releasing IE 8, you should return the favor with some apple pies or something.

A la quirks mode.

Al Billings 5 months ago 1 point
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I'm just wondering where the cake from the Safari team is...

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Alex Vincent 5 months ago 1 point
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Oh, and don't serve it for breakfast:
http://www.poetv.com/video.php?vid=14462

Jeff 5 months ago 1 point
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Just send one back with the Firefox logo~

"Yes, it will do well. Thanks for the well wishes"

;)

pd 5 months ago 1 point
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This can't be. Microsoft is, err, evil innit? :)

Now if only they could work on their CSS support, starting with border-radius, they might get their karma heading back towards earth from down there near hell.

Anon 5 months ago 1 point
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Think how much that cake costs when the ultimately high-salaried IE coders used half a day baking that cake, another half decorating it...

Jean-Jacques Rousseau 5 months ago 1 point
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Let them eat cake!

Jean-Jacques Rousseau 5 months ago 1 point
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Let the eat cake!

web design company 5 months ago 1 point
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Yeah, dont eat it. You'll get a virus, and the cake is full of bugs. Also, the cake was made by fully ignoring cake-making standards.

http://ooyes.net

Mauricio Feler Mateus 5 months ago 1 point
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No cookies?

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BoloRock 5 months ago 1 point
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Some things are a given. The cake most certainly will crash, reboot, do strange things you've not asked it to do.

eric 5 months ago 1 point
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The thing is... They don't tell you you can't remove the cake if you don't want it.

No matter what. The cake is integral to the entire operation of the thing.

Luis Albinati 5 months ago 1 point
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Did they give the recipe? Is it open source?

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Micah 5 months ago 1 point
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The cake doesn't pass the Acid2 test, and if you eat it, your bowels will switch over to quirks mode.

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Joao 5 months ago 1 point
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comedia...Nice huhuhu

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Anonymous 5 months ago 1 point
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The mozilla team should return the favor next time a Windows deadline gets missed by sending an almost identical cake that reads: "Congratulations on slipping!" :)

Jeremy Nicoll 5 months ago 1 point
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I second the notion of the "slipping" cake!

http://gnexp.com

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