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[SPEC] Another Possible Connection to Microsoft through IE 6
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Mole888
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 		[SPEC] Another Possible Connection to Microsoft through IE 6
Something I've noticed, is that I can only see the countdown in Microsoft Internet Explorer. When I go to Ilovebees.com in Mozilla Firefox it shows everything but the countdown clock. This could be a clue that they left there to show that it's by Microsoft, it also could be that the black box thing was put in there through an open door in Internet Explorer and it's actually not Ilovebees.com by Microsoft alone, but Ilovebees.com by Microsoft through security holes in Microsoft Products. I hope this helps in some way.

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Sep7imus
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 		Re: [SPEC] Another Possible Connection to Microsoft through
Mole888 wrote:
it's actually not Ilovebees.com by Microsoft alone, but Ilovebees.com by Microsoft through security holes in Microsoft Products.


Shocked That strikes me as PHENOMENALLY unlikely. Rolling Eyes

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kombucha
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 		Re: [SPEC] Another Possible Connection to Microsoft through
Mole888 wrote:
This could be a clue that they left there to show that it's by Microsoft, it also could be that the black box thing was put in there through an open door in Internet Explorer and it's actually not Ilovebees.com by Microsoft alone, but Ilovebees.com by Microsoft through security holes in Microsoft Products. I hope this helps in some way.

It's not a security hole, no such hole exists in IE that is public knowledge. The reason it doesnt display in FireFox is, I think, that it uses the special MS-only version of javascript to do the timer. There's far better W3C compliant ways to do it they just didn't use them.

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Nightmare Tony
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 		Which is curious because omn the ILoveBeer, the countdown timer works just fine. Just a case of not fully testing your programming....
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 		Yeah, it's just that Firefox still sucks next to Opera (which can render the page just fine)..lol Wink
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Yeah, it's just that Firefox still sucks next to Opera (which can render the page just fine)


No, it's that IE added a bunch of proprietary stuff that doesn't work in standards-compatible browsers (just as Netscape did back in the day FWIW). Since the majority of web users are using IE, a lot of people don't bother to make their website standards compliant and just test using IE. Obviously, MS is particularly prone to this.

There's a list of evidence that the team that did the Beast game over at MS is doing this ARG too here:

http://bees.netninja.com/wiki/index.php?title=Beast_2
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