Re: [Sheflug] IE5

["Alex Hudson" <nospam [at] york.ac.uk>]

> > Well, excluding the obvious (libre rather than gratis, etc.), I don't
> > think I agree - if you see IE5 on the Mac, you *will* drool, I
*guarantee*
> > it. It's absolutely stunning. If Mozilla comes close (and in terms of
> > standards compliance & stuff I hope/believe it will), it'll be amazing.
>
> At least on the Mac I would assume there won't be ActiveX exploits. Where
> theres a will though...

No, AFAIK IE5/Mac *does* run ActiveX. At least, there are ActiveX options in
the security settings, I presume they're not just cruft. And I didn't
install LookOut, so I've no idea what that's like.

> I generally run the mozilla nightly builds, and TBH, progress is very
> slow. I haven't managed to crash tonights yet, which is definitely an
> improvement, but rendering still isn't that good. Oh, and the prefs don't
> work.

I imagine a lot of it is still behind-the-scenes work; they don't spend a
lot of time updating the browser from what I've seen. However, I *am* very
hopeful for Konq - Mosfet's page had stuff about CSS compliance, etc., which
can only be a good thing: perhaps finally Linux will have a decent browser?

> Mozilla is heavily JavaScript (ECMA, whatever) based which is a bit of a
> black mark IMHO.

Why?

Paul Sims Wrote:

> I've said all along that IE5 (esp. Beta 2) is M$ best product, and IMHO is
> the best all-round browser on the market. It kicks Nutscrape into touch
and
> the latest Mozilla still looks behind the times in comparison.

I kind of agree, to a point. IE5/Win is good, especially the rendering, but
it's not as standard-conformant as it could be. IE5/Mac is superb in this
respect. Compared to NS, yes, it's light years away..

> This raises an interesting question - if there is an IE for MacOS X, will
it
> port straight to Linux ?

I doubt it - it's carbonized under OS X.

> Will MacOS X be M$ back-door into Unix ?

I don't think MS need a 'back-door' into Unix. They have extremely good
programmers. I would imagine a lot of those are Unix experts, among other
OS's. If they want to port something to Linux, be it via Wine, a porting
kit, or a complete re-write, they have the ability to do that, and in a
small time-frame too. MS do Unix software already, for obvious reasons they
don't do much of it. We might see IE pop up in a number of places though - I
imagine this will help their court cases no end ;)

Cheers,

Alex.

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