Orrin Edenfield wrote: > > DeMoN LaG wrote: > > >The sad thing is this: > >Mozilla is a completely beta program, with no guarentees what so ever > >that it will work/work as intended. People will bitch for *months* on > >end that they can't get something to work right (even when other people > >have never had a problem). IE6 is a finished product. It's designed to > >work with a good amount of reliability. It doesn't, it crashes, it > >takes your OS with it sometimes, yet no one says "Forget this, I'm going > >to Netscape 6", but twice a week in these newsgroups people say "Forget > >this, I'm going back to IE." Why is it more excusable for a finished > >product to be unstable but people complain that something unfinished > >doesn't work right occasionally? > > > I totally agree. People are much harder on Mozilla when something > doesn't go wrong, or it works differenly then IE/OE. Maybe there is a > way we can just filter those messages from the newsgroups, so newbies > don't get discouraged. :-) > > -- > Orrin Edenfield - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - www.orrinrule.com
I wouldn't use IE on a Daily basis for any reason. (I have one website I need to go to once a month I have to use it). I can think of some reasons why the double standard. Many people use using Netscape Communicator Right or wrong are/were expecting to see an update to communicator with additional features such as multiple accounts, and improved interaction with Java. They don't expect major features (in some platforms not all) to be broken or not turned on. i.e. Plugins on the Mac platform do not work. Sites with certain types of images or sounds do not work. Even in these newsgroups there are tales of "Java works on again /off again" on PC platform. Obvious items that should be turned on such as Save, Save as, cut, copy and paste don't work (again in some platforms, or not at all). Difficult, and awkward way of going from Mailbox folder to folder or newsgroup to newsgroup. Instead of having a menu which you click on a button and a drop down menu (or pop up menu) showing all the folders and newsgroup folders then just move the mose to the desired folder or group and release, then your there. Instead unless you know keyboard short cuts you must go to a main menu and locate the desired command. (Or you must open the third pane which waste 1/4 to 1/3 of screen space to read messages. If you have a 21" monitor and the space to put it, that's not a problem. Also, they run across bug regressions in which a bug was fixed in many revisions ago, then suddenly shows again. Finally, In Communicator there is as much emphasis on one component such as Email, Client, and Webrowser. While in Mozilla and Netscape 6 about 95% of emphasis is on the web Browser and Email/New Reader functions are an after thought. The Major reason why Communicator come out originally was to have one convienent package, in which one could read their mail, read their news and finally if they needed to go to the web they could do so while in same application. Even IE/OE is based somewhat on this idea though they use two separate applications to do so. You can invoke IE when you hit a hot link in OE and if you are in IE you can choose to read email and it opens OE. Finally they see so many ideas such as the sidebar borrowed from IE, they figure ... if Moz/N6 are so impressed IE features they are emulating them, I might as well use the real thing. I expect to take a lot of heat from writing the above. But; its my thoughts on the subject. -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Phillip M. Jones, CET |MEMBER:VPEA (LIFE) ETA-I, NESDA,ISCET, Sterling 616 Liberty Street |Who's Who. PHONE:276-632-5045, FAX:275-632-0868 Martinsville Va 24112-1809 |[EMAIL PROTECTED], ICQ11269732, AIM pjonescet --------------------------------------------------------------------------- If it's "fixed", don't "break it"! mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kimbanet.com/~pjones/default.htm http://www.kimbanet.com/~pjones/america/default.htm http://www.kimbanet.com/~pjones/message/default.htm
