| IMHO, the developers shouldnt go making sandwiches, but go and | rip out all the base Netscape code and make something that | renders pages the way the other browsers do. Then it'd make | about x million designers and customers happy. | | Personally speaking, I'm damn fed up of writing compatible | pages to satisfy Netscape/Mozilla when Konqueror, IE, Opera | and NetPositive all render a page virtually identically and | more importantly to the standards. Even, dare I say it, IE | adheres to the standards better. | | Mozilla will fail because it's the odd one out. | | Come on. Stop arguing. Face the facts. Netscape make look | nice with a new front end but it's the same old 5 year old | obselete crap.
I'm not sure where to start here. :) Mozilla is not Netscape, so it's not 5 year old obsolete crap. It's brand new and uses the official, open standards in place today. IE only adheres to the "standards" because Microsoft has the weight to say "ignore the W3C, *this* is the standard". Everyone else follows their lead, which has basically put Microsoft in charge of the de facto standard for the Internet. That is exactly what they want - control over the 'net.
I share this opinion allthough not quite as strongly. Netscape makes peoples lives harder. Mozilla is just as bad at the moment. I don't write pages with Netscape compatibility in mind any more as it's not worth my time and/or effort.
I fully sympathise with your position, but this is a battle the free world just cannot afford to loose. There are open standards and there is Microsoft's standard. The open standard must win, otherwise Redmond controls the 'net. Heaven help us if we allow ourselves to get into a position where a closed proprietary standard controls the method of data exchange over the web in same way one controls the exchange of word processed documents today. Forget Netscape v4.xx, that battle is long lost. Web standards will boil down to 2 things: the open W3C way, with Mozilla based browsers, and the closed way, with IE based browsers. It's going to be a major inconvenience, and each day that passes without a gold Mozilla release the problem gets a bit worse, but Mozilla must be supported. Unless, of course, you're going to be happy to buy Windows2002 and Office2002 in order to surf the net. Ahem. :-} I'll get off this soapbox now. :) -- 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/faq