The key issue is standards. Web designers need to write their code to the W3C standard, and the browser makers need to support that. The problem is that anyone can go pick up an HTML for dummies book and put up anything. This is the double edged sword. I personally use IE4 on Solaris. It is faster and MUCH more stable then Netscape 4.X on the machines. I know that this is flame bait, but it is my experience. The current netscape for linux doesn't support the DOM very well. The thing is: WHO CARES???? Write something that does. Right now this entire debate reminds me of a negative political race. Stop talking about what each cannot do, and what is better. The rantings are what drop the credibility of all of us. Stop Ranting and write better software! There is no magic bullet, and like it or not, if it wasn't for M$ there wouldn't be as much progress into the PC industry. Thier money has helped us grow. A lot of the facilities that we use/used in college is because of them. We are NOT at war. We shouldn't want to tear anything down, just bring the bar of softare up. The industry is very Darwinistic. If there wasn't M$ there would be IBM, and they would be the "evil empire."
One of the main reasons for the proliferation of computers today is the fact that so many "new" and hence "clueless" users have been getting into the technology. The industry needs them, for they are the ones that have the money that pays for the inovation. Can any of you really imagine your grandmother using linux? The simple fact is that some things, especially Linux, are to powerful for the normal computer user. I believe that they can gain much from the stability of the OS, but I again don't see my grandmother greping through a.xinitrc file in order to get the initial Xterm window to have the correct font, or for her to understand all of the cryptic commands. Now I don't advocate turning Linux into a Unich but one of the main ways that Mac or Win is superior IS in their ease of use. Or at least in them having a less steep learning curve. A medium can be struck between ease of use and power. If someone could come up with a "windows clone" that ran on a Linux Kernel and then kept many of the good features of it, then I think there is where it will start making inroads into normal users' homes. But that is just my $.02.
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The key issue is standards. Web designers need to write their code to the W3C standard, and the browser makers need to support that. The problem is that anyone can go pick up an HTML for dummies book and put up anything. This is the double edged sword. I personally use IE4 on Solaris. It is faster and MUCH more stable then Netscape 4.X on the machines. I know that this is flame bait, but it is my experience.
The current netscape for linux doesn't support the DOM very well.
The thing is: WHO CARES????
Write something that does. Right now this entire debate reminds me of a negative political race. Stop talking about what each cannot do, and what is better. The rantings are what drop the credibility of all of us. Stop Ranting and write better software! There is no magic bullet, and like it or not, if it wasn't for M$ there wouldn't be as much progress into the PC industry. Thier money has helped us grow. A lot of the facilities that we use/used in college is because of them. We are NOT at war. We shouldn't want to tear anything down, just bring the bar of softare up. The industry is very Darwinistic. If there wasn't M$ there would be IBM, and they would be the "evil empire."
One of the main reasons for the proliferation of computers today is the fact that so many "new" and hence "clueless" users have been getting into the technology. The industry needs them, for they are the ones that have the money that pays for the inovation. .xinitrc file in order to get the initial Xterm window to have the correct font, or for her to understand all of the cryptic commands.
Can any of you really imagine your grandmother using linux? The simple fact is that some things, especially Linux, are to powerful for the normal computer user. I believe that they can gain much from the stability of the OS, but I again don't see my grandmother greping through a
Now I don't advocate turning Linux into a Unich but one of the main ways that Mac or Win is superior IS in their ease of use. Or at least in them having a less steep learning curve. A medium can be struck between ease of use and power.
If someone could come up with a "windows clone" that ran on a Linux Kernel and then kept many of the good features of it, then I think there is where it will start making inroads into normal users' homes. But that is just my $.02.