Hi, ** OK - thread starting here - Is Netscape *better* than IE ? Cool - Holy Browser wars again. Do you want me to change the subject line to emphasize this. ** 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. True, it's unreliable, but I can see it's a lot faster than IE! IE hangs big time on a 6MB html document. NN just eats it and asks for more :) Anyway, on IE5 (Try this), select 'Save Target As' when you stopped a page loading and save it as a complete web page. While it's getting the pages it hangs for ages. The Cancel button also isn't wired up... How crap is that? ** 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. IE has loads of html bugs. At least NN forces you to write proper code. Non terminated tag pairs just don't show up. If you're a shite www design agency then it shows - big time. I normally have to re-write anything that comes out of any Microsoft tools manually using textpad (http://www.textpad.com) under Win, or Nedit/Vim under UNIX. ** 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. I agree that Netscape did introduce the very annoying and now shunned <BLINK> tag, but I have no problems with it apart from that. The mail handling on NN4.7 is very good. I have 4 accounts on my laptop:- 3xPOP3 and an IMAP. Works fine :-) ** 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. I'd try it, but Opera is just unbeatable in every sense of the word. It renders html perfectly but the UI is a little cranky and 'unprofessional' I'd like to know which GUI toolkit they're using (I assume it will be Qt). Then all I need is the EPOC port and I'm happy :) Chris. -- 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/