On or about Fri, 13 Apr 2001 18:42:30 -0700, Garth Wallace
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> allegedly wrote:
>JTK wrote:
>
>> Mama Cass Elliot wrote:
>>
>>> In netscape.public.mozilla.general the people heard Gervase Markham say
>>> these wise words:
>>>
>>>> Mozilla source code was released to the world three years ago today
>>>> (according to the dates in the source files.)
>>>
>>> so it's taken three years so far for a whole group of programmers to write
>>> a Browser/email client!!!
>>
>> Well, not quite. It's taken three years to produce an essentially
>> unusable browser and an all-but-completely-unusable email/newsreader
>> client. But it's "skinnable", I guess that's all that matters, huh?
>> Oh, but even that doesn't work real well either...
>
>I've already explained 100 times that skins are just a bonus that we get
>for free due to a design decision that makes it easier to write the
>browser for multiple platforms, but you'll just ignore me again, so I
>won't bother this time.
>
>Mozilla already works better than MSIE on my machine. And I prefer
>Mozilla's mail/news interface to Outlook...and the fact that I don't
>have to load individual messages in order to mark them read (when you're
>trying to avoid porn spam at work, the last thing you want to do is load
>it).
Just for the record, I *wish* Mozilla worked well enough that I could
use it full time. I keep trying new builds, but some stuff just flat
doesn't work. Example: http://www.xdrive.com . Their Java script
doesn't work in Mozilla, but does in IE and Netscape 4. I'm sure it's
non-standard in some way, but Mozilla's Java compatibility, to me, is
its Achilles heel. Just doesn't work well.
And Mozilla's still slower than Netscape 4.x and IE, let alone Opera.
I'm hoping it will be optimized by 1.0.
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Mike Koenecke
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