On 11/28/00 1:53 PM, in article
[EMAIL PROTECTED], "Henri Sivonen"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It seems to me that bundling a browser, an email client, a newsreader
> and a chat client in the same app (app from the OS point of view) is a
> problem in terms of choice.
>
> Why should LDAP support be a decision criterion when choosing a Web
> browser? Why should DOM support be a decision criterion when choosing an
> email client?
Well, the advantage is, when you use all of the above a lot, having it all
in one place is a damn handy thing. I, for now at least, use IE and
Entourage on my PowerBook, because they have a lot of features that aren't
so much *standards* based, as they are efficiency based. In other words, one
of the Mac MS folk said, "How can we make this product more *functional* for
the user". This is of course, somewhat independent from standards
compliance. Forms autofill is not a standard, but it's why I use MacIE for
web browsing. A simply HUGE rules toolset is not a standard, but it's why I
use E'Rage, (that and the custom views for email are just lightyears beyond
ANY other email product. )
See, standards compliance is only one part. It's the implementation of those
standards within a product's overall useability that is the far greater
part, and *that* is where Moz and NS6 both equally fall over. Actually,
E'Rage is dreadfully slow at moving IMAP email around, and large scale
deletions are agonizingly slow...*but* the OVERALL functionality of the
product is so outstanding, that I can live with that.
john
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