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".
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.
See the news and you will see how all the goverments are trying to work only
on the side of the OpenSource. OpenSource is the next ROAD AHEAD!
Antonio Gallardo
El Domingo, 14 de Julio de 2002 05:13, Thumb escribi�:
> 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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