Re: Martians in motion

"Christian 'CeeJay' Jensen" <REM...@CeeJay.findhere.com> writes:
>
> > Dear Llizard, get a copy of Netscape 4.04. You won't regret it.

If you are going for a 4.0x version why stop at 4.04?

They go right up to 4.08, so you can get annother 4 attempts at removing
bugs.


> > Netscape 4.5 is HUGE and doesn't give you much more than version 4.04
> > and
> > anything above 4.5 is just crap.
>
> What ever is wrong with 4.7 ?

Like 4.5 and 4.6 it is even bigger. The Mail/News part is inferior to
4.0x (because it is designed to run full screen 800x600, like OE).

The 4.0x Mail/News was still designed for 640x480 and can so be used
(for me more important) in 640x1000 filling only 1/2 of an 1600x1200
monitor, allowing 2 full windows next to each other.

Of course if you do go for an 4.5+ then 4.7 has the most bugs fixed.


Note: They really should have called the 4.0x versions 4.x, and the
4.5/4.6/4.7 versions 5.0/5.1/5.2, that would have been more about the
Changes and more in line with MSes IE/OE.

Of course that would make Mozilla 6.x.


> > Or... wait for Netscape 5... yeah... *I* can't wait.
>
> By the looks of it .. (I have tried the pre pre pre pre pre pre pre alpha) it
won't be done and
> bugless before mid 2000.

Seems to be a good estimate.

Waiting...............


> It looks damn good .. but loads damn slow and crashes very frequently ..

What version did you test? According to the discussions I have read
(no I have not tried it, that is too large a download for my 14400 modem),
M10 is about the first usable one and M11 (out since about 1 week) can
actually be used for daily work.


> besides it seems to
> retain (unfourtunatly) some of the old code from navigator because i get some
of the very same
> errors - Which makes me think .. did thy really rewrite it from scratch .. or
did someone
> borrow some old code ?

AFAIK they have mainly replaced the entire rendering engine, i.e. the
bit that reads HTML and displays it. Some of the application/GUI code
may have been retained.


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