I agree....MS hating is most often for no other reason than their success.
Glad to see that someone sees my point on that.
They do, and IE has been great for the web...I wouldn't say netscape 4 is horrible in comparison, tho, it was a good browser when it came out....unfortunately, its not almost 2 generations behind. NS4 does support CSS. Just not fully.
Yeah, but NSN 4.x and IE 4.x were released around roughly the same time, and even IE 4.x conquers over NSN 4.x
As for CSS, Netscape was very lazy and blind when it comes to that issue. Many webmasters view CSS as the future of the web, and for Netscape to do a half assed job on implementing it, that's just lame.
I have two differing thoughts on AOL. First, to be fair, they have expanded the reach of the internet and made it more accessble to the idiots. Job well done, mission accomplished. However....do they HAVE to screw their customers? For $23.95 (canadian), you get an ISP with lots of busy signals, jackasses for customer service, Pop-up ads and bloated software....Man, you'd think the world's biggest ISP would at lease be competitive...for 19.95, I can get Sympatico, which is faster, cheaper and with no bloatware....that's why I hate AOL....
More accessible to the idiots? Well there's no arguing that, seeing as AOL was my first ISP ever, and I can honestly look back on those days and say "My God, I was an idiot back then compared to now!"
As for Sympatico... are you, by any chance, living in Southern Ontario, specifically the GTA and surrounding regions? If so, I live near you (in Markham)! Right now I'm using Rogers @Home Cable Internet, which gets slower and slower every day. The connection speed is insulting, and they just raised their prices and updated their ToS agreement to say that you can't use a router to split your connection across other computers. Things were much better with Shaw... *sigh*. Now if you want to know an evil company, Rogers is the one!
We're going to do the switch over to Bell Sympatico Highspeed Edition DSL Internet next week. The tech people at Sympatico say they don't care if we split our connection, and I think I know why. With cable TV, you're not legally permitted to use signal splitters unless you pay for a connection for each TV on the splitter (like buying more licences for software). With a telephone, you can hook as many phones as you want on your phone line, as long as you have lots of phone jacks to support them all. Also, cable internet is a shared connection, meaning that the more computers you have linked to it would result in bandwidth rape for other customers. With DSL, your bandwidth is yours alone, so you can do what you like with it.
But enough about my life...
No, NS6 is a complete rewrite from NS4. Its based on Mozilla's Gecko engine, not NS4. Its also one of the most HTML compliant browsers out there, much ahead of IE's lacksidasical HTML requirements...
Oops, just checked Mozilla.org, my mistake.
This isn't just about Netscape lovers. There are some legitament reasons to still use NS4 (NS6 is still to buggy for real use). First, I still prefer the Netscape GUI over IE (I use IE, however). Its also more strict with coding conventions that IE is, which, while being a pain to get cross compatibility, is actually a good thing. If IE dumbs down the standards too much, you won't be able to find an error free page anywhere, which is definitely not a good thing for any new browsers or users of older browsers....
I kind of agree with that. The NSN GUI looks more "professional", and IE (as well as many other Microsoft products) are leaning more towards looking more "Macintosh style" (WindowsXP is a prime example.) I also agree that IE is encouraging sloppy webmasters to rely on IE to fix their mistakes for them, and I think that should be dropped too.
Did you know ICQ is owned by AOL?
I only use ICQ to find my victims for DDoS attacks. And I only do that to people that spam me on ICQ. I have an unhealthy hatred for spammers, and I consider myself an anti-spam activist.
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