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Re:Why port your Firefox add-on to Internet Explorer? Becaus... by llimllib on Friday December 12, 2008 @10:20AM (#395705)
> "[Writing an IE plugin using CLR that actually works on most people's computers] is a little bit tricky," Allen said.

Ya think? I'd call that the understatement of the week.

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Re:Why port your Firefox add-on to Internet Explorer? Becaus... by cgranade on Friday December 12, 2008 @12:21PM (#395839)
The version incompatibilities are a large part of why I respect Sun's commitment to backward compatibility. Even when it means that I can't use things like generics, that backwards compatibility also means that I can use the same applet for almost all browsers made in the past 10 years. Of course, you can't write a browser plugin in Java too easily...
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Re:Why port your Firefox add-on to Internet Explorer? Becaus... by ntoshev on Friday December 12, 2008 @01:03PM (#395882)
It doesn't make sense to use CLR for a browser plug-in. It is a whole layer of abstraction you don't need. I've done this, using VC 6 and ATL as a way to implement COM interfaces.
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