{"id":145,"date":"2006-02-10T13:32:14","date_gmt":"2006-02-10T18:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/?p=145"},"modified":"2006-02-10T13:37:29","modified_gmt":"2006-02-10T18:37:29","slug":"beware-the-ie-tab-extension-in-firefox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/beware-the-ie-tab-extension-in-firefox\/","title":{"rendered":"IE in a Firefox Costume"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"imgdeco\"><img src=\"\/images\/wolfsheep.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/div>\n<p>Today I was told by a software vendor that their product could be used in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.com\/firefox\/\">Firefox<\/a>.  I was thrilled beyond words&#8230;until I pulled back the curtain to discover the <a href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/extensions\/moreinfo.php?id=1419&#038;application=firefox\">IE Tab Extension<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p>What is the IE Tab Extension?   It is just a quick way to open up Internet Explorer inside a tab of Firefox.   I think of it as IE in a Firefox costume.<\/p>\n<p>When I ask for browser agnostic tools,  I mean tools that comply with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/\">W3C<\/a> standards and do not require you to use a specific browser.   I do NOT mean have IE masquerade as Firefox!<\/p>\n<p>So, the next time a vendor tells you that their product will run in Firefox, make sure to ask this question.  Will it run on any standards compliant browser?  Is it truly browser agnostic?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"imgdeco\"><img src=\"\/images\/wolfsheep.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/div>\n<p>Today I was told by a software vendor that their product could be used in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.com\/firefox\/\">Firefox<\/a>.  I was thrilled beyond words&#8230;until I pulled back the curtain to discover the <a href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/extensions\/moreinfo.php?id=1419&#038;application=firefox\">IE Tab Extension<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p>When I ask for browser agnostic tools, I mean&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}