User Friendly on IE Cake

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:

User Friendly Comic on IE Cake

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. :-)

IE Sends Mozilla a New Cake for Firefox 3

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:

Al with Cake
Me with the Cake

Cake Closeup
Closeup of the Cake

Firefox 2K and Shipping

Today is Firefox 3 day!

Here is one thing that Firefox does that IE7 and IE8 still cannot do at all:

Firefox 3 on W2K

Firefox 3 came out today, as people have been saying in their blogs. Firefox is still the cross-platform solution for those of us who work on the web, running on OS X, Linux, and Windows, going back to Windows 2000 for the latter. For the next generation web browsers, only Firefox 3 and Opera 9.5 run on Windows 2000. This is too bad as you still see Win 2K in a large number of professional institutions, like banks and factory floors, where it is seen as a tried and true operating system.

I’m really glad that Firefox 3 is out the door. It has been a good run but I think we have all been ready to ship this.

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