On Jul 15, 2004, at 8:03 PM, KG wrote:
I can't understand why iCab would perform badly for you, though. It uses a
smaller RAM footprint and is coded specifically for a Mac, not ported from
Windows like IE and Netscape.
Mild point of historical accuracy:
Netscape was never '...ported from Windows...', and ironically, IE and Netscape are both derived from the same basic code: a Unix X11 application developed at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications <http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/> called Mosaic, ( <http://www.w3.org/History.html> see 1993)
They're the same place that developed the mainstay Telnet application for the Mac, called NSCA Telnet, btw.
IE is derived from a commercialized version of NSCA Mosaic called Spyglass, and Netscape is the brainchild of one of the original Mosaic developers, Marc Andresson.
That IE is a gaping, oozing, bug-ridden, insecure wound of an application, therefore, is *entirely* Microsoft's fault. (sorry, I spent a large part of yesterday cleaning up some PC's infested with spyware, because the users are too stupid to not use IE.)
Netscape has been simultaneously developed for Unix, Macs and Windows since it's inception:
<http://www.hnehosting.com/mirrors/Origin_of_a_Browser/1/a.html>
I remember arguing (successfully) to use Mosaic (such a hassle, you needed a separate application to view JPEG files), later Netscape (which had built-in JPEG support!!) as our default browser when we got web access here in the College in 1994, largely because it was cross-platform versus Cello, which was PC only.
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