A Bat-fellow, Joseph N., wrote on Sunday, 6th January 2002 at 10:05:20 (GMT -0600), which was 17:05 in Bratislava --
JN> Mozilla <www.mozilla.org> is the OpenSource base for Netscape and JN> some others. It is much faster and smoother than IE in my view, JN> and it has favorites and preferences that are specific to each JN> user. Mozilla is a better browser than IE 5.5 or 6.0. However it has at least one fundamental deficiency: lack of keyboard shortcuts. (As pretty much all Netscape products in the past.) Not to mention customizable keyboard shortcuts -- no browser and no email program offers them right now. (Though Ritlabs have been promising them.) The shortcut I especially miss in Mozilla (I use 0.9.5) is SHIFT+SPACEBAR that works in both Opera and IE. I also miss it in TB! And there's another hideous feature in Mozilla: pressing F5 or CTRL+R for refresh will bring you back to the top of the page you're viewing, instead of to the place on the page where you were before. This is mysterious, as Netscape 4.7x never used to do this, and no other browser does. Other than that, Mozilla is great and it *looks* tremendous. I even like Mozilla Composer -- it's of course wysiwyg and therefore useless for serious purposes but it's as fine a wysiwyg free editor as you can get anywhere. Seemingly far fewer corruptions than in FrontPage or in previous Netscape Composers. But the clear nr. 1 for me is Opera, especially in the magnificent though not bug-free 6.0 version. Finally all the Unicode is supported! Mozilla or IE have nothing like Opera's zoom feature (zooming in and out in Opera using the "+" and "-" keys is as fast as in IrfanView -- for *both* texts and pictures!); or Opera's ability tu download images for the current webpage selectively (the delightful "G" shortcut); or Opera's ability to toggle between user-defined and document-defined outlook of the current webpage (the no less delightful CTRL+G shortcut). And, the status / progress bar in Opera as you're downloading webpages leaves nothing to be desired -- Mozilla and especially IE are immensely crude in comparison. Not to mention the revolutionary feature recently introduced in Opera: mouse gestures! You can now open links in the background without having to click any button or key or any item in the right-button mouse menu. Mostly when there are problems with how Opera renders webpages, it turns out that those webpages wouldn't have passed www.validator.w3.org's test for valid HTML anyway. Opera rocks and is without competition, just as TB! is without competition in the mailing world. -- Yours, Alex. of Slovakia www.avenarius.sk [flying with The Bat! 1.54 Beta/21 under Windows 98 4.10 Build 67766446 A amd k6-2 500 mhz processor with 128 mb ram] -- ________________________________________________________ Archives : http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com Moderators : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] TBTech List: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Vers: 1.53d FAQ : http://faq.thebat.dutaint.com
