On Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 02:57:28PM -0800, Civileme wrote:
-> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
-> >
-> > On 12 Jun, TK Kim wrote:
-> > > Neither.
-> > > I am kinda sick of Netscape, too. I am probably gonna have to pay for
-> > > saying this, but IE5 is a wholelot better browser.
-> > >
->
-> Well I have seen people with IE 5.5 trying to uninstall to get
-> back to 5, but the 5 I saw working crashed about every
-> quarter-hour. Netscape for Windows seems to work better than
-> Netscape for linux, and I find Mozilla better in some regards but
-> way way too "heavy" (Cluttered screen and slow) Netscape 6 Beta
-> was far worse. I think AOL may manage to do what Microsoft and
-> others could not--kill Netscape if they continue the direction.
->
-> Compared to either of these Behemoths (IE or Netscape), Konqueror
-> is light, fast, sleek, and can open sites that would freeze
-> Netscape128 java-enabled in its tracks. I don't like IE for a
-> LOT of reasons, and I think the best ever windows98 program
-> developed is ie-off.exe because win98 runs 20-30% faster on other
-> apps when msie code is disabled (and seems to crash less). Of
-> course I have left all that behind me, now. If it doesn't run on
-> linux these days, I don't use it.
One of the things you have to understand is that IE (Internet Exploder)
is not, repeat, not, a web browser. It is an operating system upgrade that
happens to include a browser. If you don't believe me, take a look at the
Windows SDK. Many functions now have in the quick reference not only the
operating system and version where they run (e.g: NT 4 SP6 or later) but
the version of IE where they are present. Other functions have features
that are only available with certain versions of IE. Welcome to DLL Hell,
squared.
And then there is the definition of an upgrade: trading old bugs for new.
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