I for one could not find anything positive to say about Netscape 6. It never
once blew me away. I have basic Javascript in my browser that works
completely fine in Netscape 4.7. Now Netscape 6 comes out and it doesn't
work, what is up with that. I already code enough to do 2 browsers now I
have to code to do 3. The reason I started this discussion was to inform
everyone that it isn't great, hasn't been great since Mozilla, and I don't
even know if it will be great for a long long time. The only thing it has
going for it is that it is ported to other operating systems. Everyone can
be a M$ hater all they want but at least they know how to make a browser.
Bob Everland
-----Original Message-----
From: Scott, Andrew [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2000 8:47 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: Netscape 6 out UGH!!!!
I think it depends a lot on Corporations, in Australia we have standards in
most large corporations ( I would assume the same goes in the USA). These
standards means that until otherwise deemed safe these companies will not
migrate to the latest and greatest. Now take this one step further, most
companies (large ones) sign deals with MS to become a MS house. MS in their
wisdom will tell you you cannot use anything that they have, for example I
have worked in places where I can't use dreamweaver because MS has
frontpage.
However as a developer I hated IExplorer, until IE 4.0 came out. I then
found that to survive netscape needed to start making more standards
available in their browser. They took their time about this and lost a big
slice of the market share, however I think that Netscape 6 may be the answer
to all and until I have had a chance to run it I can't say. But the reports
during beta were positive to say the least.
When developing I always use IE, because I can use it with Studio. Then
during the final stages run through everything with it under Netscape and
then fix anything I need to do. But personally I like what MS have delivered
in IE and await to see Netscapes answer, and it would have to be good to
start to regain the market share that they have lost.
regards
Andrew Scott
Senior Cold Fusion Application Developer
ANZ eCommerce Centre
* Ph 9273 0693
* [EMAIL PROTECTED]
-----Original Message-----
From: Justin Scott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 15 November 2000 12:09
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: Netscape 6 out UGH!!!!
> IE, while not everyone's most favorite, actually does tolerate developers
> more. It allows for errors. Figures out what you were most likely trying
to do.
>
> Netscape doesn't allow for that as much. But if you do exactly what it had
> intended, then it could very well work better than IE.
For me, this is the exact reason I stay with Netscape as my primary browser.
By coding all my HTML and JavaScript for Netscape first, it's much more
likely to work in IE with no problems than if I did the HTML in IE first and
then tried to make it work in Netscape also. There are some situations
where this is not the case, but 99% of the time it saves me hours of
development time because I never have to go back and rewrite half my
HTML/JavaScript to make it compatible with both browsers.
Our entire development team (except me) uses IE as the primary browser, and
I can't even begin to count the number of times I've heard "!@#$%^&*
Netscape!!" come from someone's desk because they thought the site they've
been working on for days or weeks was done, but low and behold the display
gets all screwy in Netscape and they have to spend another day fixing it.
I see Netscape as the HTML equivalent to coding with "Strict Attribute
Validation" turned on <g>.
_______________________________________
Justin Scott :: [Staff Developer]
http://www.annex.com
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