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Re: Why MSIE sucks for the HTML writer
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Fri, 24 Mar 2000 15:06:19 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Mike Stanley writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Todd Lehman writes:
> > But -- Mozilla will get better, and it will squash MSIE in the long run.
> > It's just a matter of time (maybe another year).
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> I'm really curious as to why you believe that. Really.
I believe that because I believe Mozilla that will, in the long run (if it
hasn't already), attract better and more dedicated programmers, designers,
and testers to work on it than MSIE.
> 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 makes you think they will make good on a
> product they've had in beta forever?
Mozilla != Netscape
> And even if they do deliver on all the promises in Mozilla, what makes you
> think it will stay that way? Nav 3 was awesome. Communicator blows.
Mozilla != Netscape
Mozilla is OS; anyone who wants to look under the hood and fix problems (bugs,
incompatibilities, lack of support, etc.) or add innovations (real innovations
or ripoffs of other people's innovations, etc.) can do just that, if so
inclined.
Mozilla is cross-platform and will always run on Gatesian operating systems
like Win95, Win98, and W2K as long as there are users of those systems. Many
people will still have to run MSIE at their jobs because their employers are
locked into Wintel, but on their lunch hours, I think more and more will be
using (not just trying it out, but _using_) Mozilla instead of MSIE, because
I think that Mozilla will ultimately deliver far more of what real people want
in a browser (as opposed to what suits and ERPs want in an browser).
> IE has pretty much kept improving over its lifespan, while Netscape's
> products seem to have started doing the opposite.
Mozilla != Netscape
> I'd be much more confident in saying that even if Mozilla turns out to be
> as great as all the anti-MS people say it will be, chances are Netscape will
> drop the ball the next go around and spend 2 years playing catch-up. But
> that's just my silly sense of history talking.
Mozilla != Netscape
--Todd
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