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  From: Ryan Verner [festy] <vernerr@dove.net.au>
  To  : Andrew Reid <andrew.reid@plug.cx>
        Andrew McDonnell <andymc73@yahoo.com.au>
  Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 10:30:11 +0930

Re: linuxsa-digest Digest V2001 #559

> I suppose part of the problem is that the so-called "Web developers" out
> there working for design firms don't know their arse from the elbow when
> it comes to making decent, platform-independant software. It doesn't
> solve the problem, however.

I agree with you wholeheartedly... I come across _so_many webpages which will only work on IE, with a resolution >1024x768.  It
quite honestly shits me off.

Unfortunately though it sometimes is nessecary to use IE, as much as some loathe it.  I quite like it actually.. cant stand
Nutscrape since 4.x (3.x< was elite), mainly due to its slowness/phatness/ugly interface in 6.x.

Microsoft do make half decent Client side software, given the occasional (*cough*) security problem(s), imo.  Make pretty damn nice
hardware too :D

Konq. renders some pages pretty terribly imo.. havent looked at it for a while actually but it seemed more of a hack than a usable
alternative to I.E.

I havent used Opera for Linux, but I've heard good things about it.

Personally I cant wait until Microsoft port IE/OE over to Linux (& BSD hopefully.  If not, ah well, good 'ole fbsd linux binary
compatibility.. heh).  I _do_ know that its intergrated into my OS, but I honestly dont care - its fast, resposive, and pretty
inititive imo (even if they did 'borrow' ideas,  I mean, innovate).

- Ryan

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