Carlfish wrote:
>
> 3. Use it because they really, really prefer NN over Internet Explorer,
> despite IE5+ being more stable, and rendering modern HTML better.
It is these users that intrigue me. It would seem to me, on the surface
anyway, that someone who prefered to be a "hold out" and keep using NN4
despite IE5's admittedly better rendering would be the first person to
adopt NN6 or Mozilla. NN6 and Mozilla offer rendering on par with IE5,
and much faster than NN4, and yet these Netscape hold outs still refuse
to use it. I have my reasons (all are with mail and news), but I am
curious why others choose to keep using NN4.
What I am particularly concerned with is the fact that there has been a
three-year long effort with the hard work of many dedicated individuals
that has turned out nothing that is used by any significant portion of
the public, and for that matter not even a significant portion of NN4
users have been persuaded to use it.
Lots of possibilities enter my mind when I contemplate the situation,
but I was curious if anyone at Mozilla and/or Netscape had bothered to
find out why no one is using it. Have they asked the NN4 users why they
won't switch? Have they asked browser users in general why they don't
use it? Have they done anything?
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