On 20-Aug-04, at 11:15 PM, Trevor Harmon wrote:
According to Tera Patricks, Camino has "no future":
I beg to differ with Ms. Patrick's. Of course Camnino has a future as long as users support and use it. And frankly, since this seems to be a one person web site, how much thought and detailed investigation has or can she put into reviews if she has to crank out material like that.
She seems to think that a browser that comes with an OS is a good thing. Personally I think its a bad idea for an OS/computer manufacturer to go into direct competition with other developers in making an essential web application. Microsoft fell into the trap of weaving to much directly into their OS and are now paying the price for it. I hope Apple returns an Internet control panel to System Preferences where it belongs and NOT in Safari.
Of course making a browser that works and looks identical across different operating systems is *not* an easy task and by no mean necessarily as desirable as she thinks it is.
I also see no mention of W3C compliance in her review. Of course if she's writing as much material as she is, how could you possibly evaluate that.
A *much* better browser review can be found at Ars Technica.
http://arstechnica.com/reviews/003/software/mac/browser/mac-browsers -1.html
http://www.mac360.com/index.php/mac360/more/ mac_browsers_the_good_the_bad_the_very_ugly_part_2/
But then, she also thinks that Mozilla is bad because it is "only up to version 1.7". Apparently she judges products by version numbers, so I wouldn't put too much stock in her opinion.
Continually releasing new versions of an application just annoys users. One of the main criticisms of Adobe products I hear is the continual version changes. Mozilla and its children should be complimented on their continual and systematic development of a brand new browser.
Needless to say, I have not bookmarked Ms. Patrick's site!
DF
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