Illegal Operations

i agree 200% i used netscape for about a week back in the day when it was the “new thing” and said forget it, i'm going back to ie and haven't looked back since. doesn't really even matter to me if my site looks bad in it….who cares, it's netscape…everything looks bad in it. microsoft didn't hinder the growth of netscape…netscape did

Wow, I knew I thought you were awesome for a reason. I have hated Netscape since the first time I used it in 1996. I have used IE ever since…

Only people who doesn't admit to Netscape sucking the big one are their employees. I bet even AOLTimeWarner employees secretly use IE, giggling like schoolgirls. Or Chris. Same thing.

God bless you! You couldn't be more right! You think it's awful to use, try developing in such a way that you've got cross-compatibility with Netscape. You couldn't imagine some of the ridiculous things we have to do to get output to look the same in Netscape as it does in IE. I watch the stats on our sites and find enormous glee in the declining trend of Netscape users. (rubbing hands together like Mr. Burns) Excellent!

Now that I'm on a Mac, too, I just wish sites in IE looked the same as they do on a PC. I was honestly quite shocked at some of the little differences — and grumbly about all of the tweaking here and there I'll have to do all over again so it will look “right” in both!

An AMEN (or AHMAIN if your so inclined) to brother Pirillo…

Down with AOL….boo AOL……………………………boo

The actions being taken by AOL are in view of the federal appeals courts finding last year that Microsoft were being Anticompetitive. Microsoft were using business practices which contested Netscapes right to a share of the market. Microsoft are wrong to do this. Irrespective of the “quality” of the Netscape product and the problems thereof it creates in terms of the “web standards” there should always be rules against monopolies as competition is always a good thing and often very creative. If its crap, dont buy it or use a different product, but there should be always a basic freedom to compete, improve (or not as the case may be) or just give the end user an alternative.

I have similar views on Netscape, but am forced to use messenger at work for e-mail. We have the Netscape (now iPlanet I think) mail server and MS's e-mail clients just don't work as well with it. Mozilla's Messenger still has some querks and I have some saved mail I can't lose. That's the only reason netscrape is on my system.

I still think that Netscape handled bookmarks better by having them all in one file for easy backup. Netscape also kept the bookmarks in the order you put them where as IE always reorganizes the favorites when restoring them from a backup. Also liked the way Netscape checked for new mail in the background instead of having to keep a mail program open in the taskbar with IE. Still, with IE being intergraded into Windows like it is, it makes more sense to use it rather than install another program to do the same thing.

While IE's favorites aren't based in a single file for use, rather it in a single folder you can as easily back up — you can MAKE them be in one HTML file by going to File>Import/Explort — it'll make that one single file for backup.

hey…remember chris's call for help episode yesterday were the guy told him his athlon was runin at 120 degrees farenheight while he was playin a game?? Well isnt is supposed to get that hot with a full load? cause thats were my athlon gets about up to. Just wonderin.

I totally DISAGREE with the implication that Micro$loth IE is better than Netscape ever was. Both originated from the old MOSAIC browser. Netscape was far ahead of anything else in it's infancy. Micro$loth, with it's monopoly power over most of the desktops, edged out Netscape by including it's inferior browser on every desktop, and most people didn't know how or wouldn't bother replacing it. Even today, I use a commercial application that is almost entirely Java, and Micro$loth lives up to my '$loth' designation, it is entirely too slow, and I continue to use Netscape. And I haven't even gotten into the security issues … but that's another book.

My college officially endorses and only supports Netscape 4. I can find no better reason to think that Netscape sucks than that.

You mean that AOL still claims that piece of crap browser as theirs? If they are so proud of it then why do they use IE with a crappy skin to power their own internet service? And, I seem to recall, they had a deal with Microsoft way back in Windows 95 days which gave users an icon on their desktop to use AOL, AIM and ICQ (another one of theirs) which stayed until XP came out this year. I remember no Nutscrape icon and they held their tongues all the way until now because they weren't included in XP. What a bunch of back-stabbing hypocrites!!! Shame on AOL!!!

Terry, that's hogwash. Netscape fanatics always bring up the Microsoft monopoly bullshit whenever I mention how crappy Netscape is. Netscape and IE originated from the same engine? Fine, Netscape still sucks. Microsoft is a big bully and pushed Netscape away? Fine, Netscape still sucks. Try stylesheets, try nested tables with background images, try 11px Verdana, for cryin' out loud. Netscape is garbage.

I totally preffer mozilla… it's faster and less comercial than netscape… Netscape crash me often… but mozilla is a great stamina… =)
Ie 6 looks sexy…and websites looks great too…