Quoting Ho-Sheng Hsiao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Sun, Jul 14, 2002 at 05:33:07AM -0600, Antonio Gallardo Rivera > wrote: > > The fact is that if we really want to make an application really open for all > > plataform we must use standards and not only said: "IE 6.0 ready". > > The thing is, if it is strictly internet protocols > (HTML/Javascript/DOM/CSS) than the current release of Mozilla will > work fine. > > > Try to make your app ready for Mozilla. I guess it will be the future when > > Linux will domain the world. This will be a fact in the next 5 years or less. > > You will see. > > Come to think of it, there's another iteration of that web apps -- > J2EE and .NET. The thing about .NET is the support from the Mono > project. I've taken a look at it. It's surprisingly good engineering. > > Yes, MS is predatory. Gates from the very founding of the company has > put that in his business plan-- to be the global software monopoly -- > and had maintained it until his lawyers started complaining. > > -Qaexl- This thread is starting to split. Although the current theme is M$ vs. Everyone else. With regards to browsers, they both have their points, with; yes Moz being very cross platform, although Explorer is available on some Unix platforms. Other Linux brosers for browsers sake are just appaling. Trust me I work with Linux/BSD daily, and in general much prefer IE over everything else, even the hallowed Opera. However for sheer software power, Mozilla isn't a patch on IE. Pureley because it is fundamental to the Windows Shell. The number and veriety of technologies under the umbrella of IE is just overwhelming, to the point where it isn't just a browser but the core UI to interface with the Namespace, with yet hosts more things available. It truly is the glue which holds together many of the divergent aspects of windows: if COM is the theory then IE is the implementations. but .NET ... now that is impressive. but first before I get to it I have to make a breif passing at COM. For those in the unix world who hold the development technologies available for things such as corba and gcc king, really should get to grips with COM at the very least. It isn't and never has been platform-bound, in fact is a binary standard. Solaris being one of the original platforms that it was developed on. Solaris was used because that is what most of windows has been developed on. If you don't believe me upon the wonders and magnificence of COM, then I suggest that you try and get your hands upon "Inside OLE 2nd Edition". ... but onto .NET After checking out COM, you may be wondering how it is possible to improve upon it, but the boys at Redmond have done it. These things microsoft produce are not itty bitty bug laden bits'n'pieces. They are programmers is a different league from us mere mortal ASM and C boys. All in All I would summarise by saying that it's not microsoft making poor quality products, but rather, the infrastructure they produce is SOO good that otehr programmers get lazy and just end up producing nasty bloated code. The benefit of Linux is that by being so raw (relatively speaking) it means that people have to learn to be good as its inherent in the society of Linux. My 2c ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf [INVALID FOOTER]
