AOL Releases Client for Mac OS X with Gecko Browser

DietFluffy writes "America Online released an update to their Mac OS X client. The built-in browser is powered by Gecko! However, America Online plans to stick with Internet Explorer for their Windows client. Will this make web designers think twice about tailoring their web pages to Internet Explorer? Or will they ignore this, given that the Windows client will still have Internet Explorer as the default browser?" And if this goes well, will the Windows version eventually use a Gecko-based browser, too?

Comments

AOL + Apple market share is small

[NotAnotherReboot]

Considering that Apple market share is fairly small and then add in those using AOL on it it's even smaller this won't make much of an impact. Most sites already work completely in Mozilla, the only ones being the ones who don't care about working on every browser, and never have.

AOL is in for the money... watch out....

[Rooked_One]

Now that linux is becoming mainstream, it wouldn't suprise me one bit if they are in the process of making an AOL OS.

HEAD MY WARNING! =)

(im serious)

Why is this so great?

[shftleft]

IMHO, IE is by far the best browser out there. I'll admit, this may be so because sites taylor to the IE crowd, but I've found for speed, user friendliness, and ease of use, IE takes the cake. I use galeon on my Linux workstations, but I feel its more unstable and less reliable than IE. I know competition is healthy, but when I is the best then they need to come up with something to compete.

Re:Web Developers will stick with IE

[Mononoke]

With .NET you can actually SMELL the IE bias as soon as you start building a page.

Real web developers don't use .NET.