On Monday 24 September 2001 12:15, Nick Zentena wrote:
On September 24, 2001 12:05 pm, Paul Abrahams wrote:
I'm considering Kmail and Mozilla as alternatives, and also considering reverting to Netscape 4.77, which has its own problems.
I use Kmail and Netscape 6.1. Provides the best combination IMHO. I haven't even looked at netscape email.
- Does Kmail provide the ability to view HTML and to activate links contained in email messages? Is it easy, or even possible, to convert Netscape mail archives to Kmail?
Don't know about the netscape archives but the rest is YES. It will launch konqueror on links and you can view HTML if you want.
- Does Mozilla have the ability to handle Web sites for commercial transactions (banks, etc.)?
IMHO with some sites it works with some it doesn't. I'm not sure why.
Nick
This cannot be stressed enough. Netscape/Mozilla (the code name NN has always had) is the poster-child for the victims of *the* monopoly. I was working closely with Netscape in the days when IE was dumped on the marked in an effort to destroy Netscape Communications corp. Netscape has its roots in OSS from way back when. I haven't been able to do the comparison, but it looks to me as though Netscape/Mozilla is really XEmacs on steroids. It is continuing to mature and improve. I've been pushing for improvements in the core performance, and it is getting much tighter. Unfortunately sometimes they give me what I asked for and I then regret it because it changes the way I'm approaching things. The reason why there are problems with many bank sites is because they build to IE/NN4 and don't care about w3c conformance. Well monied major corporations really should put some resources back into projects such as Mozilla and Linux. You know, the kind of idea that goes, by helping the whole of society and not counting every bean, we will reap intangible rewards. In other words, I need a job, and I want to hack Mozilla. Netscape Navigator is Open Sourcs Software. Netscape Navigator is GPLd. Please (everybody) read the sig tag. It's OK to b!tch when things don't go right, but if a person doesn't report a bug once in a while, or make some other kind of contribution, that person is a leech if he or she uses OSS. -- Open Source Software depends on your support. If you use it, be sure to give something back. http://www.suse.com | http://www.kde.org http://www.mozilla.org | http://www.xemacs.org