I am of the belief that WinXP SP2 is a good thing for
Mozilla?
Why so? Doesn't an improved, less horribly insecure version of
IE mean that people have less incentive to switch? True, but...
Have a look at
this MSDN article on changes Web Sites need to make to work
with SP2. It essentially says:
- Stop using ActiveX
- Stop using Popups
- Stop relying on the user agent to act on extension instead of
content-type
These are all things that you need to do to a web site to make
it work well with Mozilla. To date, if a site (especially a
corporate one) didn't work with a Mozilla-based browser, you could
complain and get told "we only support IE". Now, you can complain
that their site doesn't work with IE WinXP SP2. Which means they
have no get out clause: they need to fix their site.
The best bit: you don't even need to be running IE6SP2. If a
site doesn't work firebird on linux, just complain that it isn't
working and that you have SP2 on your system.
That is why I think WinXP SP2 is a good thing for the Mozilla
product suite.
Marius