At 09:46 AM 7/18/01, you wrote:
>: "John D. Giorgis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>: >
>: >Actually, I thought that Jackson argued that MS subtly designed Windows
>to
>: >cause Netscape to crash. It installs just fine, sure, it just won't run
>: >for very long once you get it on there.
>
>: Joshua Bell wrote:
>
>: Various versions of Netscape were (and presumably still are) part of the
>: test suites for the OS. The OS wouldn't ship if an app as popular as
>: Netscape wasn't thoroughly tested. My hypothesis for the behavior you saw
>: would be that the Netscape code base through version 4 was a mess. The
>fact
>: that they threw it away and wrote v6 from scratch should be telling.
>
>Um, they *didn't* write it from scratch - although none of the previous code
>was used. Netscape v6 is based on the Mozilla open source project browser,
>but, as is often the case, the marketing dweebs got their dirty little
>fingers into the pie and refused to let go, thus ensuring that v6 is as
>unstable as v4.x - in fact, on my machine, more so. I can run v4.x if I'm
>willing to put up with browser crashes and lockups and the occassional OS
>lockup or crash, but v6 in its current form is so horrendous I can't use it.
>It sure does *look* pretty, though...
>
>Marc
I don't even think it looks pretty. The default colors are so dark that
things are hard to see.
-- Ronn! :)
