Mozilla vs. IE was-> RE: [WEB400] Re: New IE security advice f rom Microsoft

["Bartell, Aaron L. (TC)" <ALBartell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I am also using Mozilla/Firebird for 75% of my browsing.  JavaScript
debugging has never been better!

The thing that will keep IE the front runner is that Mozilla doesn't come
configured to view yesterday's web pages.  People aren't coding to meet
Mozilla (say W3C) standards.  I was doing some web programming over the
weekend and for whatever reason Mozilla doesn't like the <span> tag.  I
don't know if I was implementing it wrong or what, but it worked in IE and
not in Mozilla and that made for a frustrating afternoon. 

The other thing is that Mozilla doesn't work with Microsoft's Sharepoint
software (I constantly get prompted to bring up a browser that is IE 5.0 or
greater), and I am sure there are many other "special feature" sites that
Microsoft has plugins for that Mozilla doesn't account for.

Right now IE works on _every_ site I go to.  Mozilla works good on about
%75.  Very annoying to switch back and forth.

I must say that I _love_ the tabbed interface Mozilla has.  I use that a
ton!

Just my opinion,
Aaron Bartell

-----Original Message-----
From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On
Behalf Of Hans Boldt
Sent: Monday, February 02, 2004 2:00 PM
To: web400@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [WEB400] Re: New IE security advice from Microsoft


Anton Gombkötö wrote:
> ...
> And i don't think that they really have much interest in it any more.
> The mass of users seems to use the browser (& email program) that came
> with their OS and don't update it. So i guess we won't see anything
> before the next OS (try). (And if there aren't millions of new users
> all the time, they aren't learning from their errors, otherwise the
> latest virii wouldn't have such a population :-)

I believe I read somewhere that MS has no plans to enhance IE for at 
least a couple of years. Given the penetration of IE, why bother, eh? 
But it does offer a nice window of opportunity for the developers of 
other browsers. Already, Moz is way ahead in features. (And security, it 
would seem.)

> 
> And of course i use Mozilla. I guess i can't live any longer without
> the web developer's toolbar and Live HTTP headers! :-) A customer even
> insisted in M$ IE and Mozilla (nothing else :-) and strictly forbid
> the use of JavaScript.
> 

I like the "Link Toolbar". Used properly, it can make site navigation 
easier. Oh yeah, that extension to disable Flash animations is nice!

Cheers! Hans

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