From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 17 12:53: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 02C6F37B719 for ; Sat, 17 Mar 2001 12:53:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 33419 invoked by uid 100); 17 Mar 2001 20:53:02 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15027.52910.641994.703497@guru.mired.org> Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 14:53:02 -0600 To: Alexey Dokuchaev Cc: Mike Meyer , Jonathan Hamel , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Swap strategy In-Reply-To: References: <15026.60693.971478.600561@guru.mired.org> X-Mailer: VM 6.89 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Alexey Dokuchaev types: > On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, Mike Meyer wrote: > > Jonathan Hamel types: > > > : > > > >having to run XFree86-4, pretty heavy mozilla + netscape (I know netscape > > > >sux, but I need to make sure my sites look the same in both browsers) + > > I'm curious - do you actually try browsers that aren't designed to > > look as much alike as possible? W3m? Lynx? Links? Amaya? Opera? > Well, I do commercial web programming, and people who pay money for my > sites are not even aware about w3m/lynx/links existance (but I have lynx > on my system and occasionaly test my sites with it). Frankly, now with > Netscape holding <20% share, it's probably not a big problem having the > site working only in IE, and mozilla comes very closely to what regular > Windoze user would see. Well, I always considered it part of my professional duty to educate my clients. Showing someone an IE-only site on a WAP phone is a good way to convince them they should worry about other browsers; that's *always* a big problem for the potential customer - who'll probably never be a real customer. 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