Microsoft accused of favouring 'IE clones'
By Martin James,
Quick also repeated doubts over the random ordering of the browsers already raised earlier this week.
“The randomisation of browsers is done with Javascript,” he wrote. “If users have Javascript turned off, IE is first. That will happen to maybe two to three per cent of Windows users but that is a big number across the EU. Likewise, if users decide to ‘choose later’ the default choice is assumed to be IE – again, this isn’t a fair assumption on MS’s part [sic].”
“Combined with the Trident-based browsers, this could give a significant weighting to IE and IE-based browsers and a significant bias against Google, Apple, Firefox and Opera,” Quick concluded.
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