----- Original Message ----- From: "Marcel Kilgus" <> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2006 10:02 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] Updated web site
> Malcolm Cadman wrote: >> So ... what in particular is painful about IE ? > > Mainly it's inherently unsafe to use it on the internet. No IE user > should be surprised if they catch some virus, worm or whatever. Apart > form that it's usually slower, it doesn't have proper keyboard > navigation, it lacks browser tabs, it doesn't recognize mouse > gestures, the bookmarks are inferior, it doesn't allow site specific > settings, the popup blocker is lacking, it doesn't have an ad filter, > it doesn't include an RSS client, it doesn't maintain state (opened > URLs) between sessions, when it crashes you cannot just continue to > work where you left off, there is no proper cookie management, it > renders pages wrongly and doesn't comply to most standards, it's not > very customizable. > > Okay, those were just the things that I could immediately come up > with. I guess with some effort the list would be longer ;-) > You missed out the most important one. Opera can pretend to be IE, but IE cannot pretend to be Opera! ;-) >> I use both IE ver6 and Opera ver6, and usually IE is much the quicker at >> finding sites and downloading ... despite Opera's claim to be the >> fastest thing in West ..... > > Opera 6 is how old? 5 years? Unlike IE, Opera HAS been improved in the > meantime. They're at version 9 now. > I should perhaps have mentioned my statistics were for 2005. There is some evidence that there are now about 4% Opera users. There were a surprising number of different versions in use: Opera 5 0.1% Opera 7.1 0.5% Opera 7.4 0.2% Opera 8.0 1.0% Opera 8.5 0.4% Best Wishes Geoff _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
