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Re: Why MSIE sucks for the HTML writer
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Thu, 23 Mar 2000 01:06:46 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Mike Stanley writes:
Which browser are you using on Linux that you would call "better" than
IE5?  Seriously.  Every time time I try some flavor of Netscape
product for Linux it just ends up making me run screaming back to
browsing on Windows.  In fact, I would rather run VMware and NT or
2000 so I could use IE5 than use Nav/Communicator on Linux.

I love Linux, I hate Windows, but I have yet to see any Linux web browser
other than Lynx which even comes remotely close to MSIE5 in how well it works.
Netscape sucks, Mozilla sucks.

But -- Mozilla will get better, and it will squash MSIE in the long run.  It's
just a matter of time (maybe another year).

--Todd



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  Re: Why MSIE sucks for the HTML writer
 
(...) Have you looked at w3m? It seems like a better Lynx than Lynx.... (25 years ago, 23-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
  Re: Why MSIE sucks for the HTML writer
 
(...) I'm really curious as to why you believe that. Really. If Netscape were interested in or capable of producing an IE-killer browser, why haven't they done it already? Given the almost universally agreed-upon crappiness of Communicator 4.7 what (...) (25 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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(...) Which browser are you using on Linux that you would call "better" than IE5? Seriously. Every time time I try some flavor of Netscape product for Linux it just ends up making me run screaming back to browsing on Windows. In fact, I would rather (...) (25 years ago, 23-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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