{"id":1219,"date":"2009-05-29T23:53:32","date_gmt":"2009-05-29T14:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2009-05-29\/1219"},"modified":"2009-05-29T23:53:32","modified_gmt":"2009-05-29T14:53:32","slug":"shocking-ie8-is-just-a-rebranded-version-of-firefox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2009-05-29\/1219","title":{"rendered":"Shocking! IE8 Is Just a Rebranded Version of Firefox"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<div class='resize_warning' id='arw1219'>\n<b>NOTE<\/b>: Images with an <img class='raw' width='19' height='18' src='\/i\/s\/red_zoomup.gif'\/> icon next to them have been artificially shrunk to better fit your screen; click the icon to restore them, in place, to their regular size.\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p style='margin-bottom:0'>While running Windows Update, <span class='nobr'>I noticed<\/span> that Internet Explorer version 8\nis out. Apparently, <span class='nobr'>IE8 is just<\/span> <span class='nobr'>a rebranded<\/span> version <span class='nobr'>Firefox 3!<\/span> Who would'da known...<\/p>\n\n<div style='margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0' class='ic'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/IE8-is-Firefox.png\" width=\"732\" height=\"367\"\nalt=\"Internet Exploror 8 is the latest\nversion of the familiar Web browser that you are mot comfortable using\"\nclass=\"raw\"\nid=\"iIE8_is_Firefox\"\ntitle=\"Internet Exploror 8 is the latest\nversion of the familiar Web browser that you are mot comfortable using\"\/><\/div>\n\n<p>My reaction to their &#8220;<i>these are not the droids you're looking\nfor<\/i>&#8221; attempt was to bypass it. Heck, <span class='nobr'>I haven't<\/span> even installed IE7....\nbut then again, why should I?.... <span class='nobr'>I never<\/span> use the IE6 that <span class='nobr'>I do<\/span> have.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My reaction to their \"these are not the droids you're looking for\" attempt was to bypass it. Heck, I haven't even installed IE7.... but then again, why should I?.... I never use the IE6 that I do have.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1219"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}