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Tom Achronos
Bungie.net Overlord
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"I have no words that would do justice to the atrocities you commit to the English language, as well as your continued assaults on the concepts of basic literacy and logical reasoning."
It isn't an emulator. IE is designed to be used by any windows application. All the plugin does is open an IE instance in a firefox tab, and uses the IE renderer.
Incidentally, the IE renderer is generally faster than the Firefox one. However, Firefox is generally more strict about the rules of various standards, so that's probably why that is. In our case, our HTML/CSS is generally designed to work best in Safari, and the code adjusts it to deal with various IE bugs/"Features". The problem with Firefox is that there are a few rendering bugs that we could work around in a similar manner, except that if we did, we'd break IE AND Safari. And given that IE is still waaaaaaaaaaay more used than Firefox on this site, the choice is obvious. And before some idiot starts whining about "following web standards"... that's not the problem here. It is all about working around the bugs in each browser.
We are working toward changing the way our client detection code works, so that things will gradually get better for people with custom browser configs. Maybe even mobile browsers will work eventually.