Gollum wrote:
> "M�sl Roland" wrote:
> > ...
> > Look at
> >
> > http://www.thecounter.com/stats/2000/December/browser.html
> >
> > After 0.3 days in December, NutScrap 5 still behind
> > NutScrap 3 and MSIE 3.
> >
> > This statistic tells: most NutScrap users boycott the new version
>
> I _do_ agree in Netscape making crappy software, but don't you ever get tired of
>these
> statistics?
> How many times a week do you have to make postings about them? Do you get money from
> advertizing on the site you are referring to?
>
> I suppose you also buy music based on similar criteria, i.e. those artists selling
>the
> most records must make the best music and those further down the list can't be woth
> listening to?
>
> There are various reasons for people sticking with the buggy browsers from Nutscrape:
> - Having read too many reports of security flaws in M$ products. Using M$ IE is like
> having a car that at the same time cannot be locked and is popular among thieves.
> - Using an operating system where M$ IE is unavaliable.
> - Using two (or more) operating systems, preferring one common browser that's
>available
> for both.
> - Being more familiar/satisfied with Nutscrape's user interface. A feature you lose
>is
> often considered more valuable than one you gain.
> - Not encountering problem sites very often. If you get the information you want,
>why
> bother about the web page not being displayed quite as intended?
> - Having plenty of memory and a fast CPU (partially compensating for high CPU and
>memory
> load and memory leaks).
> - Having experienced previous versions of M$ IE crashing not only itself, but
>Windows as
> well. (This isn't much of a problem for IE 5 or 5.5, but may have made some users
>more
> forgiving about a program that only crashes itself - in most cases.)
> - Most surfers are not web designers, and don't care about the extra effort
>necessary to
> make a web page viewable in Netscape - as long as the web designer has taken this
> effort.
>
> By the way - the newsgroups alt.netscape.buggy-products and alt.netscape.sucks are
>meant
> for harassing Netscape (and maybe getting some help with their browsers?), not for
> promoting Micro$oft...
>
> Since you're obviously not using Nutscrape yourself, I suppose that you either must
>be
> working for Micro$oft or that you're a frustrated web designer.
It's no use. Mosel has already told us that Netscape has "ruined his life". Poor Mosel
should just be ignored, and perhaps pitied. He has become one of the late Spiro Agnew's
"Nattering Nabobs", with nothing positive to offer.
--
Dick Smith, Mesa AZ - but it's a dry heat
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