RE: [Dynapi-Dev] Netscape 6 discussion

[Pieter V. W. <pie...@1e...>]

I'm not very experienced webscripter,
but in my humble opinion:

 1. Why bother having a standards organization?
 2. Isn't that what microsoft targets: embrace, enhance, extinguish (cfr.
haloween) (not my ethics)

 Since
 - NS4x is still in the stats
 - DYNAPI is a cross-browser dhtml lib
 - Some web applications require dhtml
 I think NS4 should still be supported, BUT of course im not too aware of
how much of a pain Netscape is for dhtml ...


Pieter.


# -----Original Message-----
# From: Pascal [mailto:pb...@oi...]
# Sent: dinsdag 6 februari 2001 12:21
# To: dyn...@li...
# Subject: [Dynapi-Dev] Netscape 6 discussion
# 
# 
# 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...)
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