Re: [Sheflug] IE5

[Richard <nospam [at] sheflug.co.uk>]

Al Hudson wrote:
 
> 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.

Well, if you'll just give me another chance here I'll explain a few
things :-)

When I worked in a call centre one of the things that came up was that
Mac users would phone up and ask for help.  Since it's part of the
ISP/Mickeysoft contract to only allow people to use MS Windoze then we
were told to advise them to go back to their Mac dealer to get
connected.  They didn't like that at all and a couple of far eastern
customers started to threaten people.  I received some of it but no
guns were seen (unusually).

One of the things I noticed as IE4 (dross) and IE5 began to be used on
Macs was that I kept getting phone calls from people who had used Macs
for years.  They said things like "how do I get this f****** ***t off
my computer".  And other things that I can't repeat on this list.  One
of the friendlier people was a lady medical student who wanted to know
why her computer was crashing and why her e-mail stopped working after
starting to use IE5.  I had to explain to her that she had joined the
rest of the world in using "the latest technology".

So, you can see that perhaps only a few people on this list think that
IE5 is of any use to anyone ??

Thanks

-- 
Richard
Sheffield UK

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