At 4:37 PM -0500 4/3/03, kp wrote: >I also "punted" 6/7.02... after all that. >I have downloaded IE 5.16, Outlook Express & now >Eudora 5.21 (If I like it/it works, I will have to go >the pay way, I need spell checker & am very curious >what else is left out of the Free copy).
I gave up on Netscape 4.x many moons ago. Shifted to IE 5.x but after reading about suppressing popups I started looking at alternatives. Netscape 6 was atrocious. Icab was decent for a while but as CodeBitch rants on MacEdition, iCab and Opera need work on standards support. The dogs that are still in the hunt really are IE & Mozilla. The problem, however, is both are doomed in OS 8/9. Neither will be upgraded any further unless some helpful soul can roll one out of the Mozilla source and then find if its broken. I use Mozilla mostly because of the built in popup suppression, although I launch IE if I need something quick. Eudora is still the best email client on classic MacOS, bar none (IHMO). Since the fine folks at Qualcomm released the full feature set as freeware, the only hangup is the little ad box you can move out of the way. I run Eudora in sponsored mode and have it look at 5 email addresses and it nicely underlines my spelling gaffes and catches words a nice minister like me shouldn't use before they get sent. Outlook Express is nice but I've been too used to Eudora to change to anything else. That said, Mail (in X) is supposed to be da bomb plus a bag of chips. I'm waiting to put X on this shiny G4. Lastly, again, major app development on Classic is pretty much over. Whatever you have for clients is what you have to work with and even bug fixes and patches likely won't be forthcoming. That's the business side of software development, much like the 68k->PPC transition. But also keep in mind 64 bit PPC is right around the corner so we'll have to deal with another software transition that will force 32 bit users to shift up. It's the Low End Mac conundrum. -- Pax, Pastor Mac Made on a Macintosh, of course. -- SuperMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | Service & Replacement Parts [EMAIL PROTECTED] | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> SuperMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/supermacs/list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/supermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
