[geeks] My love/hate with Mickeysoft...

[Greg A. Woods]

[ On Sunday, September 23, 2001 at 17:55:29 (-0500), Reagen B. Ward wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: [geeks] My love/hate with Mickeysoft...
>
> Strange that it's so unstable under OS X.

As far as I know they're still supplying their own port and M$ themselves
haven't yet released their own native MacOS X port.

>  MSIE for Mac isn't bad at
> all, and is one of the more standards-compliant browsers.

Unless M$ Internet Exploder is an entirely different code-base on
Windoze than on Mac, that simply can't be true.  They're guilty of
making as many or more extensions to HTML as anyone else is.

>  And if your
> criteria for measuring quality are stability, size, speed, useability,
> and standards compliance, MSIE for Mac is a damn fine browser.  Netscape
> is piss-poor on all of the above criteria.

I don't really like Netscrape either -- it was just the best
full-featured browser with a half-decent modern HTML parser that ran on
the Unix/X11 platforms I have available to use (I continued to use
Mosaic for a lot longer than many people did! ;-).

I now run Mozilla, even though it's incomplete and still almost as buggy
as Netscrape-4.

I understand there are MUCH better browsers for MacOS < X though.....

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