In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Garth Wallace 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>JTK wrote:
>
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> 
>>> JTK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> 
>>>  This is why I compare Mozilla on Solaris against IE on
>>> *Solaris*, where neither has a blatant advantage.
>> 
>> Well, you mean where both have a blatant disadvantage, i.e., running on
>> an OS which was never designed to support GUI apps.  And again, which
>> version of IE are you using?  I don't think they've released a
>> non-Windows version in rather a long while....
>
>Both at an equal disadvantage means both on equal footing. The point was 
>to compare Mozilla and IE, not UNIX and Windows.
>

Ahem.  Is there a reason nobody is quoting me version numbers here?

Hello?

>
>>> NT on a SPARCstation?  You do know what a SPARC is, yes?
>> 
>> Sure do.  I thought MS for a while had a version of NT that ran on some
>> of these 'also ran' Unix boxes....
>
>I know they did NT for DEC Alpha (a friend of mine had an Alpha 
>workstation in his dorm room back in college that ran NT), but I think 
>that's basically it. Definitely none for SPARC.
>

Alright, that's the one I was thinking of, thanks Garth.

>
>>>  There are a number of other browsers available for use,
>>> and some of them are even Gecko-based, if that's so important, perhaps
you
>>> should use one of them.  Instead, you choose to whine-post here until
everyone
>>> dismisses you as a troll and a cretin.  THAT qualifies as having an axe
to
>>> grind.
>> 
>> Meh, whatever.
>
>The fact that there are Mozilla-based browsers that use native widgets 
>for UI, yet you continually complain that "Mozilla should use native 
>widgets for UI!"

There's a native UI covering the browser, the newsreader, the whole
shebang?!?!?  Where can I download it man!?!?!?!?

> shows that you care more about annoying people than in 
>the actual project.

Nope.  Just you Garth.  Well, and Mr. Hume.

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