John Welch wrote:
>
> On 11/27/00 5:59 PM, in article 8vup1f$[EMAIL PROTECTED], "Scott A.
> Colcord" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > What would you have them do, then? Netscape indicated that they didn't have
> > the resources to do native UI on more than one platform; their only options
> > were to do XPFE, go Win-only, or declare the browser a lost cause and drop
> > it completely. Unless you've got a few tens of millions of dollars to throw
> > their way to give them more options, try to recognize that deploying a
> > product on a limited budget means that not everyone is going to get
> > everything they want on the first try.
> >
> > Scott A. Colcord
> > Software Engineer
>
> Okay...you are *seriously* going to sit there and tell me that AOL can't
> afford to do native UI FE's on more than one platform. That is *very* close
> to insulting my intelligence. AOL is damn near bigger than Microsoft at this
> point, heck they may BE bigger than MS, and MS has *zero* problems writing a
> browser that runs natively on more than one platform...hell, they do it with
> a browser, an email client, a PIM, an OFFICE SUITE, and games. And oddly
> enough, the Mac version of IE and OE are *better*, more compliant, and more
> capable than their windows counterparts, and windows has nothing from MS
> that can touch Entourage.
>
> Please, you want to tell me AOL is having a tough time finding coders, that
> I'll believe. But don't try to tell me AOL *can't afford* it. That's just
> crap.
>
> And since Mozilla is theoretically paying none of the coders, then the only
> limiting resource there is people.
>
> john
Have you got a Linux version of IE or OE? However, I won't bother to go
into MS's inability to deal with the platform spectrum. I will ask if
you are complaining about Netscape 6 or Mozilla. If the former, you are
in the wrong group. If the latter, do some coding and fix it. For
Netscape 6, go to
snews://secnews.netscape.com/netscape.netscape6.windows or appropriate
other groups. Indicate specific problems. We are sick to death of
ranting in that group too.
Chuck
--
... The times have been,
That, when the brains were out,
the man would die. ... Macbeth
Chuck Simmons [EMAIL PROTECTED]
