In article <m7X65.61283$Do1.709145@news1.rdc1.bc.home.com>,
Geshel <geshel@hotmail.com> wrote:
>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.

<rant>

I say screw them both.   First design web pages to be compatible with
webbrowsers that only understand HTML, _then_ add bells & whistles for
the bells-&-whistles-bloatware browsers.
I do 90% of my webbrowsing with Lynx and get quite pissed off with 
idiots who do things like javascript-only links, Flash-only without 
an HTML alternative etc...
(BTW, also a big f**k you to the people that use use javascript 1.1+
 without specifying the version number in the <script> tag.
 I'm getting sick and tired of all those javascript errors I'm getting
 when I'm forced to start Netscape 3.01 Linux/X-(window(s)) 
 (3.0x was the last pre-bloatware version) because some idiot used 
 javascript 1.2 elements but indicated that the script was just plain
 old javascript)

>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.

It's very easy to get Windoze flakey: I sometimes boot to windoze 98
to do vidcaps (no Linux vidcap driver :( )  but if I use Realplayer
to check the .rm files I eventually end up with and leave the program
open for some time after the end of the file, windoze starts issueing
SCSI resets every 30-60 seconds (at least the symptoms are the same 
 as when one loads (modprobe or kmod deamon) a SCSI module in Linux).
Excuse me, but such a program should never have any influence on 
low level disk IO (that's the kernel's business)...

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

I was thinking of removing the anti-M$ use of the (IE-only) 'dynsrc'
part of the 'img' tag from my index page when I do the long overdue 
"overhaul & move to own domain" of my website, but with 'those fanatical
 and irrational MS supporters' around, I'm not so sure anymore... ;)
(http://www.stack.nl/~veritech/index.html ; unless MS removed 'dynsrc'
 support since something like IE 3.x , IE users should see a bunch of
 annoying (40 KByte) ie.avi files sprinkled between the text, instead
 of the 1 pixel transparent GIFs that users of other browsers 'see'... ;) )

</rant>

todo sometime soon: compile a stripped to the bone Mozilla; I really
hate 10 MB+ bloatware webbrowsers...


BTW, why the heck was this crossposted to two 
<alt.config>WRONGLY PLACED</alt.config> Italian newsgroups???
(those groups removed from Followup-To:)


SD Maruko-kun (posting from a.b.p.anime)