On Saturday 02 August 2003 18:38, Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:
Scott Jones wrote, On 08/03/2003 03:31 AM:
Aside from the fact that NS is, for all intents and purposes, no more, what they need to do with 4.x is drive a stake through it's heart, cut off it's head and bury it at the crossroads at midnight.
Though I would agree NS 4.x is dead, I wouldn't say NS is no more. I
Aside from AOL having cut the entire browser dev team, but yeah, it's only a flesh wound.
use NS 7.1, and it is quite nice, based on Mozilla 1.4. (It is even gcc 3.2 compiled from Netscape, nice for my 8.2.) It also has an
I've done a couple of NS 7.x installs for clients. Aside from a problem with the mail component under Win2K, and the AOL-added stuff, it seemed okay.
html editor (Composer), though I also like and use Quanta. I would also agree, though, that the code should be standards based, and that is one main reason I use Quanta, as it seems better at this than Composer.
I haven't used Composer since version 4.6 for OS/2, so I really have no opinion on it's current state. I use Quanta for anything other than quick edits/fixes (where I use gvim), and am hoping that the WYSIWYG mode turns out to be decent when that release comes out. -- Scott Jones (scott at exti dot net)