ASP is a script format for web pages, not unlike PHP. The main problem
with ASP is that it is a Microsoft format. I will not even pretend
that I am an expert on the topic, but I suspect that this M$ format
breaks W3C standards in some way. If not, then those who use this
format would be less likely to comply to standards since they are
writing on a Windos system with Windos users as a primary audience
(since most users use IE).
On Mon, 12 Mar 2001 15:38, Benjamin Sher wrote:
> Dear friends:
>
> For the record, the mozilla .8 rpms in Mandrake Cooker/unsupported
> are for i686. They will not install in LM7.2. When I tried to
> install them in LM7.2 I got the error message: "for a different
> architecture." That was that.
>
> I finally found a version of Mozilla .8 with a Preferences box that
> works. In all the other versions I tried (and I think I'd tried them
> all), when clicking on OK in the Preferences box (on any item),
> would cause Mozilla to crash. This problem did not exist in Mozilla
> .7 but it does exist in most Mozilla .8 versions.
>
> Well, I went back to Mozilla's home page (www.mozilla.org) and
> downloaded the latest nightly build (20011105) for Linux. This time,
> the bug seems to have been fixed. The Preferences configuration went
> off perfectly.
>
> Now, my own feelings as a USER about Mozilla are very mixed: I am
> very pleased with its feature richness, reliability, stability, etc.
> However, I find much of it aesthetically, i.e. (interface design) to
> be plain, unimaginative and, in the case of the mail client,
> downright ugly. If you compare the interface in Mozilla to that in
> KDE, Gnome or WindowMaker, you have the strange feeling that Mozilla
> belongs, aesthetically speaking, to some antediluvian, DOS or even
> pre-DOS (if that is possible) generation. Let's hope that after
> Mozilla is completed, the Mozilla folks will completely redesign the
> Mozilla interface.
>
> Now, for the good word I promised in my subject header:
>
> I tried a page that was mentioned earlier by someone else. The URL
> is:
>
> http://www.pcquest.com/june00/linux_spam.asp
>
> Netscape 4.76, the latest Konqueror (in KDE 2.1) and Opera all
> rendered it wrongly or as a real mess.
>
> But Mozilla .8 renders this .asp format SUPERBLY, at least on this
> page. Really astonished. What, by the way, is this .asp format that
> eludes Konqueror and Opera? Whatever it is, Mozilla does a great job
> at rendering it.
>
> Yours,
>
> Benjamin
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