Re: [Re: [Re: [newbie] Evil Empire]]

1999-08-31 Thread Ben
Is it worth it? Do we really want to pay $35 for something we already get for free? Do we want closed source when there's a big pile of Netscape code sitting there for the taking? I just don't know... Actually, I think it is worth it. And from my understanding, after reading the posts on

Re: [newbie] Evil Empire

1999-08-29 Thread John Connell
LYNX? But i think in time you will see a decent non-bloated browser (maybe) on linux.. i certainly hope so. Fish.

Re: [newbie] Evil Empire

1999-08-29 Thread Alan N.
LYNX? But i think in time you will see a decent non-bloated browser (maybe) on linux.. i certainly hope so. Fish. You should check out opera. I ran it on BeOS for a while.. Was OK.. ( until it expired. Alan

Re: [Re: [newbie] Evil Empire]

1999-08-29 Thread Michael Scottaline
"Alan N." [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: LYNX? But i think in time you will see a decent non-bloated browser (maybe) on linux.. i certainly hope so. Fish. You should check out opera. I ran it on BeOS for a while.. Was OK.. ( until it expired. Alan == I don't believe

Re: [Re: [newbie] Evil Empire]

1999-08-29 Thread Steve Philp
Michael Scottaline wrote: "Alan N." [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: LYNX? But i think in time you will see a decent non-bloated browser (maybe) on linux.. i certainly hope so. Fish. You should check out opera. I ran it on BeOS for a while.. Was OK.. ( until it expired. Alan

Re: [newbie] Evil Empire

1999-08-28 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Thu, 26 Aug 1999, Art Rowe wrote: Microsoft bashing is fun, as it was when I was trying OS2, but MS Explorer is a good program. Until an attachment (aka e-mail virus) or some Active-X control on a website destroys the content of your harddisk, maybe. Even if you're on Windoze, using a

Re: [newbie] Evil Empire

1999-08-28 Thread Justin Fisher
On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote: On Thu, 26 Aug 1999, Art Rowe wrote: Microsoft bashing is fun, as it was when I was trying OS2, but MS Explorer is a good program. Yes i agree, MS did do a decent job on their browser from a functionality standpoint. This is a major

Re: [newbie] Evil Empire

1999-08-28 Thread Caymen
I dont know about you guys, but using Netscape 4.61 and using MS IE5 I would take Netscape any day of the week. I always get invalad JavaScript errors on it, and the Ffunny thing is that Netscape and Sun did JavaScript. MS didnt. That tells me, IE is an inferior browser. it is telling you that it

Re: [newbie] Evil Empire

1999-08-27 Thread Singer XJ Wang
I didn't say Outlook Express is evil. All I am saying is that most of the time I use PINE to read e-mail and its very hard to read HTML mail. [Okay, it possible to export it to a file, load it up in LYNX but that's a hassle for a lot of messages]. Of couse, when I'm at home I can use Netscape

Re: [newbie] Evil Empire

1999-08-27 Thread Art Rowe
I can remember lusting after as Sinclair Timex computer with 2K memory. That computer lasted about a week before becoming obsolete. However, I got on well with a Commodore 64 and with the top of the line monitor I had much better screen graphics than the IBM PC's of that day. There is a trucking

Re: [newbie] Evil Empire

1999-08-26 Thread Manny Styles
- Original Message - From: Art Rowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 26, 1999 6:37 PM Subject: [newbie] Evil Empire Microsoft bashing is fun, as it was when I was trying OS2, but MS Explorer is a good program. When I was dual booting Win 98 and Linux, I

Re: [newbie] Evil Empire

1999-08-26 Thread Steve Philp
Art Rowe wrote: Microsoft bashing is fun, as it was when I was trying OS2, but MS Explorer is a good program. When I was dual booting Win 98 and Linux, I was using it. When I realized, from mail lists, that html was a problem for some people, I changed my settings so that I sent text only

TIDRe: [Re: [newbie] Evil Empire]

1999-08-26 Thread Michael Scottaline
Steve Philp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's not so much the pretty backgrounds and cool fonts we care about, it's the amount of bloat that comes with it that bothers most of us. Those tags for fonts, packaged backgrounds and everything else blooms the message size tremendously. Posting in HTML