[geeks] And The Linux Weenies Wonder Why They Aren't Mainstream...`

[Joshua Boyd]

On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 11:28:04AM +0100, Frank Van Damme wrote:

> It can be hard to test your software under conditions you don't have
> access to (like having a dozen of different architectures just to
> compile your application on).

Just using two architectures will shake out most problems.  Say a Lintel
machine and a Sparc system with the Sun compilers.
 
> And only a few years after the end of a rather ugly browser war and
> subsequent monopolisation of the web browser market by an utter piece
> of crap? Given that there are now several high-quality browsers based
> on two good-to-excellent rendering engines (khtml and Gecko) that is
> not a bad result at all. When I first installed Mandrake (five years
> ago) the software that came closest to being usable was netscape 4.

I wouldn't call any web browser I've seen based on khtml or gecko good
to excellent.  I'd say that they are mediocre at best.

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