RE: [SLE] Win apps in Linux - Is Netscape *better* than IE
OK - thread starting here - Is Netscape *better* than IE ? IMHO Netscape is lagging behind IE by a long way. It's slow and unreliable. I really onlu use it toi access swat, webmin etc which equire a secure connection & I can't be arsed wading through the Lynx version of these pages. I use kfm for non-secure stuff. MS have got the mechanics of IE right, even if the philosophy is wrong. Since IE is effectively free it competes on a level playing field. Netscape started as closed source - I haven't seen much imprevement since it went open. MS have pushed the direction of html in a direction that the w3c is moving towards, but Netscape cast itself adrift a long time since. In the days when I used Windows a lot I tried Netscape and found it's limitations extremely annoying. Where IE & Outlook Express happily dialled & accessed any no of ISP mail accts for instance, Netscape had to be left looking at one mail server. You may think this to be heresy but were IE properly ported to Linux/Unix I for one would give it a go. In the meantime, when Opera gets itself sorted out & the if price is reasonable I may go there instead. On Friday, March 24, 2000 5:10 AM, Juergen Braukmann [SMTP:juergen.braukmann@ruhr-west.de] wrote:
George Toft wrote:
Paul Sims wrote:
If anyone has actually seen IE 4/5 running on HP-UX or Solaris would
you enlighten us on performance etc?
Will IE for Solaris run under Linux if we install iBCS? (Ignoring the *desire* to do something like that, but is the concept viable?)
What a hard way to run crappy software. But I am curious enough to cry *ME TOO*
still grinning ;-)
Juergen
"WorldSecure Server
On Fri, 24 Mar 2000, Paul Sims wrote:
OK - thread starting here - Is Netscape *better* than IE ?
Here's my take on it: Netscape as such is dead at 4.7. It is comparatively slow, comparatively clumsy, comparatively crash-prone, but highly compatible. And it has a few security holes. (The open-source Netscape 5 is covered below under Mozilla.) IE is ongoing. It is comparatively fast, flexible (much better fundamental design than Netscape), and stable. But everything *else* running on the same system is crash-prone so long as IE is running, it has a *lot* of security holes, and MS is in the habit of including in it unannounced OS changes that are not backward compatible and can't be uninstalled. (Which, oddly, never break the most current prior release of MS software. On the other hand, they *have* broken custom software written with the most current prior release of MS development tools.) Mozilla, the open-source Netscape Navigator project, should *not* be considered as the next version of Netscape. Both the object model and the HTML rendering engine have been thrown out and replaced. That's equivalent to an auto mechanic replacing the engine, transmission, drive train, and wheels, plus the instrument panel and controls. Unfortunately Mozilla is still in alpha testing, and needs to be. I looked briefly at Opera for Windows. Externally it looked like an old version of Netscape, except they had ripped out all the user-interface features I like best about Netscape and replaced them with something more like the IE version. Also it did not at that time support Java, and three of the first four sites I went to needed Java support. Can't comment on internals, later versions, or Linux version. I haven't looked at any others yet, except for the KDE browser. I'm looking around a bit now and then trying to change the KDE mail program (which I like) and file browser to use Netscape as the web browser, which should tell you how much I like the KDE browser. -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
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