Yes, quite off-topic, but also right on the mark. I am also a Developer, and
I am glad that Netscape is dying the slow death that it deserves (less that
30% of net users surf with Netscape now. Over 60% run with IE). I used to
like Netscape... until IE surged past it so fast (with features and
standards compliance) that it made Netscape look like a piece of the
landscape. Only Netscape 6 can save the browser... and it just barely
matches IE5.5 as it is.

So to Jupiter Knight : if IE loads slow, it's because you have a flakey
installation of Windows... That has always been my experience, anyways. IE
(and especially Windows Explorer with Active Desktop installed and engaged)
is a great indicator of the health of your windows system. It performance is
proportional to the stability and quality of your windows install.

Sorry for the off-topic post. I just can't handle those fanatical and
irrational MS bashers.

...Geshel
"the wheel is turning, but the hamster is dead"


"langman" <langman@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
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> A bit OT but nevermind...
>
> I take it by your phrasing you are not using any Communicator
> based Netscape. Last time I tried Communicator, it annihilated
> my machine with a load tme for the browser at around 4mins!
>
> As a web programmer, I would love to see Netscape die as
> it is always Netscape users we have to pander to because it
> doesn't support something vital to the correct display of a vital
> object. The programmers should get off their fat asses and fix
> Netscape before they lose everyone.
>
> If you don't install the crap like the desktop "enhancements" then
> everything that affects the OS should die with it. IE then becomes
> just a plan browser, and not a bad one at that. (Not good though,
> Microsoft have never done good!)
>
> Jupiter Knight <jarcher@direct.ca> wrote in message
> news:395AB6A7.39A1061E@direct.ca...
> > bach@visi.com wrote:
> >
> > > Wooooooooooo Your page is incredible!!!!! Really impressed!!!
> > > Steve-O
> >
> > Unfortunately, I'm not impressed.  Especially what that little bit on
> > the entrance page pretty much saying Netscape users are not welcome.
> > Sorry, but I have a problem with MSIE 4.0 and above.  It makes my
> > computer run like a slug, it's huge, and it takes forever for my
> > computer to start up with it installed (oh, say 5 minutes).
>
>