Jamie;
Very well summarized.
Miguel
Thumb wrote:
> 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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