Gervase Markham wrote:
>
> > > mozilla.org does not claim that it is. As Simon said, use Netscape
> > > newsgroups for bashing Netscape, please :-)
> >
> > When Netscape starts acting like they care about something besides marketing
> > points, I will more...
>
> So you are saying you are yelling at us because Netscape won't listen?
>
> > > As I have said on this subject before, go away and inhale the specs for
> > > HTML4, CSS 1 and 2, the DOM, XML, RDF, IMAP, POP3, FTP, HTTP, etc. etc.
> > > When you've done that, go away and study the millions of broken web pages
> > > that people will expect Netscape 6 to get right. Then come back and
> > > re-express that disbelief :-)
> >
> > Dude...it eats RAM, it doesn't support LDAP at all,
>
> Note LDAP is not on the above list :-)
>
> > the interface is slow,
> > buggy, and interface ridden, Helper apps are broken, no secure email.
> > Standards support is immaterial until the thing is useable without needing
> > 60+ MB of RAM for IMAP and browsing.
>
> Rubbish. If it worked now but had crap standards support, we would have
> spent the last two years recoding Netscape 4.x.
Actually that would not have been a Half bad idea.
Just rip out the Java Guts and make a Java plugin that would be 100%
compatible with Apple MRJ / SUN JRE on Mac and SUN JRE on PC and UNIX.
Job could have been over with in 6 months.
>
> > >> I despise Netscape for
> > >> blaming anyone else but themselves for the NS6 Debacle.
> > >
> > > Are they?
> >
> > They tend to put out this message of "We only use what Mozilla gives us".
>
> Where, exactly, is this message put out? I have not had this impression at
> all.
>
> Gerv
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