Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 19:54:38 -0500 From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: James Greenhalgh <james-list@ntlworld.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ARRGH Netscape stinks! Message-ID: <15188.56910.631404.477056@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <76438007@toto.iv>
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James Greenhalgh <james-list@ntlworld.com> types: > Personally, I find it FAR less obtrusive when an application stays within the > bounds I gave it rather than spawning more and more windows. It's nice to be > able to visit a site that requests 100% screen width and have the window > within the opera X window resize only logically (becoming scrollable), and > it's nice to have popups pop up in a small logical window too, rather than the > browser arrogantly assuming it's the most important application and > splattering itself all over my xterms ;-) (like Netscape and Mozilla) If I > put opera in the top left of the screen using say, half the screen width, it's > nice to know that it will NEVER touch the rest of my desktop, for any reason. The problem isn't the browser, it's the *sites* arrogantly assuming they are the most important thing on my desktop, and asking my browser to open new windows or expand the window to 100% of the desktop. Disabling JavaScript helps a lot, as well as making the Netscape both more secure and less prone to crashes. > Perhaps my original description wasn't clear? At any rate - it's all personal > preference, you can *demand* whatever you like - but we're all stuck using > whatever is closest. Yup, it's all personal preference. Unfortunately, many web site designers aren't aware that such things exist and depend on your browser - and system - being configured just like theirs. Simply running Unix on a 1600x1200 display is enough to break some sites. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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