Ah, I'm not offended.  Just surprised is all.  I was kidding about
starting a browser war.  I don't really care what people use, just so
long as they don't complain about how the layout doesn't work in Lynx
1.0 :-)

AFA IE/Mac goes, in all fairness, I'm looking at it from the point of
view of all the @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@# customization I had to do to get sites to work
properly with IE/Mac and everything else.  Plus, we have a site that
(against my better judgement) uses an iframe floating over a section of
Flash.  This does not, cannot, will not work in IE/Mac because you can't
float anything over a plugin becuase of the z-index bug.

As a consumer browser, it may be fly as can be, but I'd never notice
because I'm too busy arguing with the internals.

I thought Opera was pretty sweet back when I first tried it, but that
was before an ad-supported version was released, and I was a poor
college student at the time and didn't have the moolah to shell out for it.

--benD

Jim Campbell wrote:

> Really?  I really liked IE on the Mac.  I don't use it now - Mozilla and
> Opera are too far advanced to consider it, but for OS 9, I don't think
> anything for the Mac was as good.  I didn't know about the z-index thing
> though... Hmmm.
>
> At risk of offending you again :)  Opera is pretty great these days.
>
> - Jim
>
> Ben Doom wrote:
>
>  >Begin Browser War:
>  >
>  >  
>  >
>  >>I love the irony of Microsoft's Mac software being almost universally
>  >>superior to their Windows software.  I prefer Office X and its suite of
>  >>applications far more than Office XP/2003, and IE for Mac was probably
>  >>the best browser out for OS 9 and OS X for a while (possibly the best
>  >>browser, *period*), although Opera is probably the king in that regard
>  >>now.  Well, that or Mozilla.
>  >>   
>  >>
>  >
>  >IE for Mac the best browser?  What the hell are you talking about?  Its
>  >DOM is even less standardized than IE/Win.  Its plugin structure forces
>  >any plugin to have an "infinite" z-index.  Its _javascript_ support is
>  >even odder than IE/Win.
>  >
>  >I really, really don't care for this browser.  But maybe you noticed that.
>  >
>  >Safari has its own set of problems, especially for developers, but is a
>  >pretty good browser for the average end-user.  For my money (or lack
>  >thereof) Mozilla is king.  Though, admittedly, I've not used Opera since
>  >way back when.
>  >
>  >--benD
>  >
>  >
>  >
>
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