[NTLUG:Discuss] RealPlayer

[Cameron]

* greg at nas-inet.com [2000.11.30 20:23]:
: I don't know about others but I'm really getting kinda tired of a the
: web sites that are clearly setup for IE, like real.com.  Between the
: frames and font settings it really gets hard to read some of these
: sites.  I like to set Netscape to use my font selection cause most sites
: have the type set sooo small that I have to stick my nose right up to
: the monitor to read it.  I've got a 19" and some of those sites must be
: showing at 8 pt. or less.  Then you've got the sites that try to squeeze
: text and frames so tight that when you use your fonts the words overflow
: into the boxes.
: -- 
: Greg Edwards

to sense:

whether we want to believe it or not, IE *is* an excellent browser.
Nutscrape has been pretty stagnant over the past year or two while IE
has been under continued development (and just between you and me, the
Mac version is better than any browser i've seen).  And the font issues
you talk about are Linux NS4 issues--try mozilla (or NS6).

but i do take issue with sites using IE-only features.  that's annoying,
but most of those sites aren't worth going to anyway.  and i've decided
that Micros~1 actually went and looked for quirks in Nutscape's HTML
renderer, put "work-arounds" in IE to render wierd code correctly, and
then made sure FrontPage used those work-arounds in every page it
creates.  Subtle but effective sabotage.

but having said all that, i'm muy excited about mozilla (if they will
ever finish the friggin thing...can you say "feature creep"?  if not, go
here: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/feature-creep.html)
hopefully, mozilla will live up the hipe and show IE how things should
really be done.
-- 
cameron
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