Don't assume that most webmasters are too lazy to code their pages for anything other than IE.
The real problem is once a non-standard buggy piece of crap browser like NS 4.x
enters the marketplace, webmasters must support it or risk alienating
users from their websites. I always end up having to code twice just so
things like layer effects work on NS browsers as well as IE.
Geez, what's with all this IE bashing? Every version of Internet Explorer
(past 3.0) are all incredible browsers. Version 4.0 does alpha
blending, DHTML, layers, etc. and did it way before Netscape coughed up their
pitiful non-standard methods of achieving a fraction of what's possible in
IE. Even an organization that has continued to bash IE repeatedly for
deficiencies in its compliance with W3C standards (www.webstandards.org)
admits that, "Microsoft's
implementation of CSS1 has thus far always been the best available..."
Free software is more like a community art project than farmers giving away food. It takes work from volunteers, but the end results are free for any number of people to enjoy without cost.
This is the worst argument of all. To counter it, one can simply
say that "Mozilla can't do what Opera can do". Why can't we all just
accept that Opera and Mozilla are two different browsers? Both of them are damn
good at what they do. Comparing Mozilla and Opera is like comparing apples and
oranges.
This is the worst argument of all. Apples and oranges?
Web browsers should all work the SAME. Netscape and Mozilla have given me
tons of grief. One time I tried to embed a RealAudio file in a web page in
Netscape 6.0 and Mozilla (granted an older version) and it LOCKED UP the
browsers. Ever see how slow a page with lots of nested tables loads in
Netscape? No problem for IE, though. Opera is no prize either.
Ever try to execute methods in a Java applet through JavaScript in Opera?
You can't.
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Don't assume that most webmasters are too lazy to code their pages for anything other than IE. The real problem is once a non-standard buggy piece of crap browser like NS 4.x enters the marketplace, webmasters must support it or risk alienating users from their websites. I always end up having to code twice just so things like layer effects work on NS browsers as well as IE.
Geez, what's with all this IE bashing? Every version of Internet Explorer (past 3.0) are all incredible browsers. Version 4.0 does alpha blending, DHTML, layers, etc. and did it way before Netscape coughed up their pitiful non-standard methods of achieving a fraction of what's possible in IE. Even an organization that has continued to bash IE repeatedly for deficiencies in its compliance with W3C standards (www.webstandards.org) admits that, "Microsoft's implementation of CSS1 has thus far always been the best available..."
Free software is more like a community art project than farmers giving away food. It takes work from volunteers, but the end results are free for any number of people to enjoy without cost.
And you consider this a viable business model?
This is the worst argument of all. To counter it, one can simply say that "Mozilla can't do what Opera can do". Why can't we all just accept that Opera and Mozilla are two different browsers? Both of them are damn good at what they do. Comparing Mozilla and Opera is like comparing apples and oranges.
This is the worst argument of all. Apples and oranges? Web browsers should all work the SAME. Netscape and Mozilla have given me tons of grief. One time I tried to embed a RealAudio file in a web page in Netscape 6.0 and Mozilla (granted an older version) and it LOCKED UP the browsers. Ever see how slow a page with lots of nested tables loads in Netscape? No problem for IE, though. Opera is no prize either. Ever try to execute methods in a Java applet through JavaScript in Opera? You can't.
Brrrrrr! You said it! On a cold winter morning, I'd bet that the lump of coal will burn a lot longer than that worthless stock certificate.