Jerry Baker wrote:
> 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?
>
>
>
Just MHO, Jerry but I think it's because there hasn't been a "release"
yet. Everything so far has been "preview" or "beta" or less than 1.0 ..
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