A lot of browsers are based on Mozilla, so if you target Mozilla, there
is a good chance the other browsers will work too. (I prefer Galeon
personally, but it's not available on a MAC)
Mozilla aims to be standards compliant, if it works with Mozilla but not
another browser, chances are the other browser is buggy. If it works
with another browser, but not Mozilla, chances are the web app is buggy
(probably doesn't work with the standards)
When you consider Microsofts predatory motives, it's clear that
targeting special features of their browser is really shooting yourself
in the foot because if they decided they didn't like you, they can
change their browser to not work with your stuff. (and you'll have to
play the if($browser) {...} game)
The perception about IE that really annoys me is that it's faster. I try
and explain that it's because
M$ put it in the OS, so that whether you want it or not, your resources
are taken up by IE, IE is given special treatment competitors simply
can't access. (and really shouldn't, IMO)
On a MAC platform (OS X) here are the stats:
%CPU VSZ RSS
IE 3.4 283976 142156
Mozilla 2.0 142156 57552
I'm running several tabs in Mozilla, and only 1 window in IE. Mozilla
still seems to take up too many resources though :-(
It's not an issue of browser quality so much as politics, business
models and control.
I long for the day when the schoolyard MS bully no longer has any
friends to play with because everyone is sick of loosing their lunch
money.
Jamie
On Saturday, July 13, 2002, at 09:32 PM, Ho-Sheng Hsiao wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 14, 2002 at 12:31:07AM +1200, Net Instruments wrote:
>> When we began design, 2 years ago, MS was the only browser which
>> could do
>> what we needed.
>> Sometime in the future we hope to make it cross platform.
>>
>> -Matthew
>
> Unless you're doing something like embedded ActiveX/VBscript,
> MS-extensions to Java, or MS-extensions to CSS/DOM/Javascript, the
> Mozilla 1.0.0 / Netscape 6.2.x browsers works. (It's PNG
> handling is actually better than IE 6).
>
> You might want to test that site out with the latest copy of Mozilla.
> The old Netscape was annoyingly klunky. The new stuff doesn't feel
> very much slower than IE.
>
> I can't speak for Konqurer.
>
> -Qaexl-
>
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