I think it would Be A Good Thing to simply PROHIBIT Mozilla vs Internet
Explorer performance comparison or discussion here.
That comparison simply brings too much unrelated baggage with it. A pointer
to a published report is good, but this banter is pointless and gets is the
way of useful communications (The font thing, for example. Those of us
looking at it have waded through 60+ bantering notes to exchange some
ideas. Will anybody looking here tomorrow or next week, somebody who might
contribute to the font problem, choose to filter through the banter?)
Anyway.
How about PROMOTE Netscape 4.X as comparison basis. Mozilla's plenty enough
slower than 4.7 to identify areas most performance challenged. The typical
mozilla user or customer is more likely to be migrating from earlier
Netscape versions, not migrating from IE 5.5 or IE6.0, that is, comparison
to Netscape 4.x is a more real-world customer-oriented comparison. Most of
all, comparison to earlier Netscape releases brings less baggage and we can
squelch the damnable noise in here. (if such a policy were made, how
could/would it be enforced, short of fully reviewed/ moderated group. Would
nastygrams to offenders be sufficient, you think? Although, my experience
here and other wide open forums, some people seem to enjoy being
ridiculed).
Anyway... Those in favor, raise your hands.........
Sam (speaking, out of turn, not on behalf of my employer, lacking approval
from my wife, without discussion with my clergy, zen master, scout master,
therapist, etc, etc <grin>)
