Gervase Markham wrote:
>
> > > But hey, they are both
> > >applications for editing text,
> >
> > No, they're not. Notepad is an application for editing text. Wordpad is an
> > app for editing RTF. Word is an advanced word processor. Not much
> > similarity between any of these three.
>
> Netscape is an app for displaying HTML 3.2 (basically.) Mozilla supports
> HTML 4, CSS 1 and large parts of 2, XML... but you've heard this list
> before, right?
>
Sure, but usually with a bunch of qualifiers such as "will eventually
support" and "once the bugs are worked out will largely support". Is
there a simple chart somewhere showing how much more standards-compliant
Mozilla is - today - than NC4.77, IE 6, etc? If not, why not?
> > On the other metaphor-busting hand, Mozilla is a web browser and an email/news
> > reader (well, maybe someday it will be). NC4.77 is a web browser and
> > email/newsreader.
>
> Are you seriously claiming that these two products have the same level of
> function?
>
Not at all! I'm claiming that NC4.77 is USABLE ON A DAILY BASIS, and
that Mozilla IS NOT. That's not at all "the same level of function" in
my book!
[snip]
> > Both Wordpad and Word actually *work* Gerv.
>
> I know at least one person whose thesis got eaten by Word who would
> disagree with you there.
>
And how many people lost their emails to Mozilla just recently Gerv? I
don't think you want to get into a bug-fight here Gerv.
> > Mozilla doesn't, and it's already
> > more bloated than both NC4.77 and IE. How much more MB will be required
> > before 1.0?
>
> Check n.p.m.performance for the graphs you need. As all the load-time and
> mem-usage charts are moving downwards at a steady pace,
Not the ones I've been seeing Gerv. In fact in the last few weeks
there's been an inexplicable *increase* in load time.
> if Mozilla 1.0 is
> released as far from now as you think, we will be using negative memory
> and loading pages before they are requested :-)
Um, no, you'll be using more memory than has ever been manufactured and
loading pages after the internet has been replaced by something else.
