On Sun, 30 Dec 2001 23:06:38 +0000, David W. Fenton wrote: > To be honest, I used to encounter far more unusable pages with NS 4.x > than I do with Mozilla. And with proper stylesheet support, everything > just looks better in Mozilla, too.
I absolutely agree that when Moz can display a page at all the effect is far superior to NS. > > I used to regularly have to fire up IE to view a page, but since I've > been using Mozilla (I started with 0.9.3 in August), I've had no such > problems, and a far more pleasant browsing experience. Now with tabbed > browsing I could never go back. So far as the tabbed browsing, and all other aspects of the user interface are concerned, here again, I could not agree more. When I was a Windows user I always used NS rather than IE, and when I started to use Moz / Galeon (beginning a couple of months ago with 0.9.5), I was very very impressed (and continue to be so), with just about every aspect of the user interfaces. Unfortunately, so far as needing to fire up other browsers to view pages is concerned, my experience is obviously different from yours. I don't expect you to spend time visiting these sites, but to take just two recent examples : http://www.abit.com.tw/ The problem here is that the blue band one third of the way down the page should contain clickable navigation options. The site is unusable without it. http://www.pcworld.co.uk If I mouse over the main purple menu on the left hand side under Departments I get a pop up alert "1 exceeds the number of menu layers" These are show stopping failures that do not happen in NS. > I'm moving all my clients who use > Netscape over to Mozilla now -- it's so clearly superior to NS 4.x that > it's a huge leap in performance and stability, not to mention capability > to render more pages. And this, even when it's just a pre-release > version. > > I couldn't be happier with Mozilla. > > I just wish that my experience was the same. I have absolutely no intention of abandoning open source browsers. Like most of the people here, I strongly support this movement and I will persevere for as long as the developers are so generous as to spend their time providing software for me to use. In my opinion, however, a browser that could display just about anything thrown at it, including M$ inspired and dominated crap, would be one of the best weapons (maybe the best), that those of us advocating open source could possibly have at our disposal. Regards, Geoff
