On 08 Jun 2001 14:55:22 -0400, Michael Leone wrote:
> > > What is Mozilla?
> > >
> >
> > Mozilla is the open source/freeware version of Netscape 6. I use it
> > sometimes, but I'm not sure how popular it is. It hasn't reached the
> > full release yet. It's only on version 0.9.
> >
> > There are a number of other Linux browsers to think about.
> >
> > 1) Netscape (obviously)
> > 2) Galeon
>
> Galeon uses the same "engine" that Mozilla uses, and so should render pages
> very closely to Mozilla.
>
> > 3) Nautilus
>
> Nautilus calls on Mozilla to display HTML, doesn't it? It doesn't do it
> natively.
>
> > 4) Konqueror
> > 5) Opera
>
> Which, as a totally OT BTW, won't work on MS's suppport site - something
> about it not handling the VBScript there very well.
> (Altho that may only be the Windows version of Opera)
>
> > 6) Lynx (this is obviously a worst-case scenario, as Lynx is a
> > text-based browser).
>
> Dunno about "worst"; I know some folks (very few, to be sure) who use it. Of
> course, they always complain when they go to some site with graphics, or
> Flash animation, etc.
>
Sorry. When I said "worst-case", I meant from the developer's
standpoint. Personally, if it's a file I want to download, I won't
bother with lynx either. I'll jusg fire up wget. As far as the users'
standpoint, it's in really bad taste to make your page w/o some form of
alternative page for the folks that can't see all your glitzy stuff
(because they're either blind, have images turned off, or are surfing
from some device that doesn't support it).
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