[Dynapi-Dev] Netscape 6 discussion

[Pascal <pb...@oi...>]

Just reading an article on freshmeat (thanks to www.scottandrew.com) about
Linux problems with a good browser.. mainly targeting Mozilla.

Then started thinking, I was a huge fan of Netscape.. operative word: WAS.
After trying out IE5 I got annoyed by Netscape's browser: it's so huge.

I then read about Mozilla, being a faster browser using the super-fast gecko
engine (raved about by many sites and magazines). But when the first few
milestones rolled out I was very dissapointed. Now NS6 is out and a few new
milestones have been released, but it's still one big application that I
don't need.

How many of you out there are using Mozilla, and why? Is it just because you
"hate" Microsoft? or is there really something I'm missing. Also for
professional webdesigners out there, are you targeting ALL browsers, or just
ignoring the Netscape "things" ?

Another question (full of them today :-) is that everyone wants standards..
so why rave about Mozilla supporting the W3C standards perfectly? If
Netscape stops, it means that Internet Explorer (win32) is the standard
(almost there already I think) Sure, again Microsoft will be controlling
things, but once IE is the standard, a smart company like Opera can easily
move into that area, making there browser 100% IE compatible, and work from
there.  We now have 2 very distinct Netscape browsers and Internet Explorer
and MS will not support other peoples standards..it's not the way they work.

Leading to my real question: should DynAPI keep supporting "old" 4.x
browsers? is there any need for it?

Pascal Bestebroer (pb...@oi...)
Software ontwikkelaar
Oberon Informatiesystemen b.v.
http://www.oibv.com