to hell with firefox... what benefit does microsoft get for developing for firefox... they might as well develop sharepoint for linux... quite being a bitch
James:
THe main reason being that it's not playing fair, and alienating a large part of the MS Orietned community out there. The way I see it, A company playing fair would support that browser, only tor prove that you'd want to use IE7 more than FireFox even though it has the same support.
Although making living with MS technlogy, I still have to say M$ is evil
Awww, what a shame. I guess that sites like www.ajaxwrite.com are not the only ones who discriminate based on the browser (try launching ajaxwrong with IE...)
And has it occured to anyone that not writing code in support of FireFox saves MS money? ... Granted they have alot, but since when has any tycoon entity ever thought they had enough cash?
James:
The major problem with restricting yourself to one browser is that you're presenting an all-or-nothing ultimatum to your users - either you use Sharepoint AND IE, or you don't use Sharepoint at all. I can understand this sort of ultimatum when it's a level to get customers buying applications - like offering superior functionality to Office 2007 users - but since IE is a free application and doesn't earn MS any money, it does nothing but alienate a certain segment of the population. I'm not even a Firefox user - been using IE7 since beta1 and loving it - but I'm already annoyed by this news.