Date: Sat, 2 Oct 1999 10:29:18 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Thomas Uhrfelt <thomas.uhrfelt@plymovent.se>, jack <jack@germanium.xtalwind.net> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: MS Internet Explorer For FreeBSD Message-ID: <19991002102917.I496@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <LOBBJNJHKFOGCKJFKEKBGEKECLAA.thomas.uhrfelt@plymovent.se>; from Thomas Uhrfelt on Fri, Oct 01, 1999 at 05:12:40PM %2B0200 References: <LOBBJNJHKFOGCKJFKEKBGEKECLAA.thomas.uhrfelt@plymovent.se> <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910011426480.69444-100000@germanium.xtalwind.net> <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910011019400.58319-100000@germanium.xtalwind.net> <LOBBJNJHKFOGCKJFKEKBGEKECLAA.thomas.uhrfelt@plymovent.se>
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[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] On Friday, 1 October 1999 at 14:28:52 -0400, jack wrote: >On Friday, 1 October 1999 at 17:12:40 +0200, Thomas Uhrfelt wrote: >>>>> One of the reasons i'm doing this is because Netscape dosen't >>>>> work for me quite right and it doesent have all of IE's featues >>> >>> Bugtraq has listed quite a few IE "features" lately. :) >>> >>>>> when my kid goes to this site (www.bolt.com) netscape core dumps >>>>> and just leaves the system hanging there >>>> >>>> tried it here too, and it crashes my browser but system still works >>>> fine...have you tried the site using Win-Netscape? >>> >>> Turn off java and javascript and it comes up fine. >> >> I am not gioing into the IE vs NS debate, but don't you think it's funny >> while you are promoting NS in favor of IE - you tell him to fix a bug in NS >> by saying the same things as MS when they "fix" bugs in IE .. "No problem, >> just turn off...(BLAH BLAH" ;-) .. > > I have come across several non-standard (read M$ "enhanced") java > apps and scripts that choke NS. I have not looked at what that > page uses but based on the ones I have looked into...... I think the fact is that there is no good web browser available. I think it's a sorry state of affairs for what is both relatively simple and extremely important to a large majority of users. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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