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AOL To Finally Switch To Mozilla?
pitabutter writes "Sounds like AOL is joining the list of companies making the internal switch to Linux, taking their default browser choice along with them. Oddly, second article in a short time linking AOL and Red Hat. " As with all things with AOL/Mozilla, I'll actually believe it when the darn thing ships - but the internal switch to Linux is something that I've also heard from people.
There is no way in hell an AOL employee is going to just come out and say that they wouldn't use AOL if they could, even if its true. I would really like to see where you got that quote from, but as of now, its seems like you're bullshitting because you don't like AOL.
...don't get me wrong, Gekko actually functions surprisingly well for 95% of HTML rendering. But there are some things it simply does NOT HANDLE AT ALL that IE does in its SLEEP. Multiple sub-layered dynamic tables, for one- the engine will get the first one right and puke on all subsequent. It doesn't handle dynamic use of the iframe tag at ALL. Things like that.
Until Gekko can play as fast and loose with HTML as the IE rendering engine, the vast majority of users are going to consider it to be shite, because comparing page loads, IE is more forgiving and Gekko just doesn't bother to do things that it SHOULD (much like the Navigator / Communicator 4.x engine!).
I've had to make WAY too many design comprimises in order to get my web work to run properly in netscape and mozilla.... often times scrapping entire designs that worked fine in IE. If the idea of the web is to be platform independant, then why do I have to retard my code because something touted as "better than IE"... isn't?
AOL shifting to Mozilla? Maybe when the rendering engine is as idiot friendly to HTML as AOL is to the home user. Until then, I really, honestly can't see it as anything more than a longterm hedge against Microsoft.