In Pursuit of Mysteries

User Friendly on IE Cake

June 22nd, 2008 Posted in Humor, Mozilla, Technology

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Apparently, the popular web comic User Friendly just did a cartoon about the cake that Internet Explorer sent to Mozilla the other day when we shipped Firefox 3.

You can see it on their site in full size but I’ve added it below in a smaller size as well:

This cake has gotten far more press than I think anyone expected. I guess people like it when conflicts can proceed with a certain amount of grace. As has been suggested, when IE8 ships, we should send the IE team a cake as well but we’ll make sure to include the recipe with it so they can make more of them…

Oh, and I like the little “The cake is a lie!” nod in the tiny cake graphic beneath the cake. :-)

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Comments to “User Friendly on IE Cake”

pd Says:

June 23rd, 2008 at 1:11 am

ok, time for the free publicity for that piece of junkware to stop! They are riding on the coattails of all the hard work put in by thousands of volunteers when they pay millions to their developers and can’t implement simple things like border-radius

Al Says:

June 23rd, 2008 at 2:25 am

Well, considering that I still have friends working on that “junkware”, I have a slightly more charitable view. They are mired in the bureaucracy of a gigantic organization. Freed from that, given the resources that they have, they could make an excellent browser. Unfortunately, that will not come to pass and, in a closed source environment, no one can help them improve things.