would always ride on top of a DHTML drop-down menu, no matter how much
we fiddled with it. This was with IE 5.5 though. Possibly resolved at
this point?
- Jim
Ben Doom wrote:
>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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