Re: [NTLK] OT---AOL launches in X

From: Eric L. Strobel (fyzycyst_at_comcast.net)
Date: Wed Jan 15 2003 - 08:59:16 EST


on 1/15/03 7:00 AM, Woo Lee at vitcitylb_at_earthlink.net wrote:

> Yeah, ever since AOL bought Netscape(to someday replace IE) it has gone
> cr_at_ppy. I'm sticking to 4.79 for now. Maybe Mozilla?
> ------------------
>> Besides, with all the bugs and all the web pages Netscape crashes on, I'm
>> probably going to be hiding Netscape away before I ever get close to
> getting
>> rid of AOL.

Ah, but I'm talking about the 4.x version! Seems like it chokes & pukes on
an awful lot of pages. And they never fixed that "Oh, I've just
successfully drawn the page, so let's blank the whole thing and draw it all
over again" bug. Now, it's not entirely the browser's fault -- there's
entirely too many folks coding their pages for stuff that only works on
WinTel or to use the latest fancy bells & whistles that convey no
information, the page's author just thinks it looks cool. Kinda poetic
justice really. After all, there was a time where all other browsers choked
on the latest Netscape-isms.

- Eric.

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Eric Strobel (fyzycyst_at_NOSPAM^mailaps.org)

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