On Sun, 11 Jul 2004, Jerry Yeager wrote:

> These tend to be designed specifically for using windoze components,
> such as ActiveX gizmos that you have to have windoze. Very, very, bad,
> bad programming.

Harsh to call it bad programming. It's usually a business choice. Though
often the choice is to embrace the entire MS stack and not hire anyone who
can survive away from their MCSE certification.

> This might be enough. CERT issued a very serious recommendation that

DHS (Dept Homeland Security, never sure how many others might think it's a
large FedEx-like company in the UK) have also issued a warning not to use
IE. Almost enough to make you feel sorry for MS. Almost.

> For the record, there are some others out there.
>
> Safari,
> Camino
> Foxfire
> Mozilla
> Opera

Also OmniWeb, which is still alive and kicking and are close to releasing
a new version. Looks like they've thrown quite a few new ideas in.

http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omniweb/5/

It's payware, but often the demo vesion is completely usable.

Hen




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