Subject: Re: [Netatalk-devel] Re: WEBMIN DEVEL BOARD UP
From: Matthew Keller (kellermg@potsdam.edu)
Date: Thu Aug 10 2000 - 15:43:57 EDT
BWS - Offwhite wrote:
> And IE5 really is very standards compliant. If you have seen it you would
> have to agree. It does style sheets properly along with just about
> everything in the HTML 4.0 spec. I really like how it handles
> Javascript... i.e. It works correctly.
I have extensively used IE5.5 Mac (along with all other modern browsers
that run on Mac, Linux and Windows), and can tell you that it is NOT
"very standards compliant", unless you want to equate industry standards
with "Microsoft Standards". Any "cool features" that you happen to like
are NOT in spec, even though some of them are REALLY SPIFFY.
> If Netscape 4.7 was this nice, there wouldn't be a problem with them
> losing market share.
If Netscape 4.7 was included on 80% of PC's (PC = "Mac and Windows") by
default, they wouldn't be losing marketshare either.
I will admit that Netscape has been lacking as of late. Netscape 5 has
been vaporware for so long that they've decided to call it "6", "steal"
Mozilla instead of building it themselves (thank you, AOL), and 4.7
isn't all that well when you talk about standard either.
Anyhow, which browser is better is moot- IE does NOT handle some 128bit
SSL certs properly *BY THEIR OWN ADMITTANCE* so your inability to use
SourceForge is the fault of your browser. Microsoft's KB is littered
with technotes about this problem.
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