That's not fair, Apple!

Remember when I discussed about which browser I was going to use on Mac OS X? One of the things I pointed out on the comparison between Firefox and Safari was that scrolling web pages in Safari seemed a lot smoother than in Firefox. This is especially valid for pages that have embedded videos. Scrolling these pages on Firefox sometimes makes a video trail appear across the entire page.

Well, Vladimir Vukicevic (who is part of the Firefox developing team) has come across some questionable practices from Apple while he was trying to improve the Mac OS X version of Firefox. It seems that Safari uses undocumented APIs to get some advantages over other browsers, which (among other things) explains why Firefox is unable to smooth scroll pages just like Safari does.

Given that Microsoft has already suffer the consequences for performing this kind of unfair application development, it makes you wonder why Apple has the need to take a part in similar practices.

Source: Slashdot