Re: [Sheflug] netscape 6

[Will Newton <nospam [at] misconception.org.uk>]

On Sun, 17 Dec 2000, wulfie wrote:

> technology seems to work though, and finally the page can be resized
> without a total re-load. It seems to co-exist with 4.x ok, but somehow I
> don't see 4 hanging around on my system too long ;) Worth the wait...I
> hope so. It's happily downloading Opera B4 right now, hope it doesn't get
> jealous.

I have a CVS snapshot of konqueror (KDE filemanager/browser) that make
syou wonder what Netscape have actually been doing. Features:

- NS plugin compatability - Flash, Real Player etc.
- Java (Uses the IBM JVM on my machine, can use Sun)
- ECMA/Java/JScript
- CSS 1 and most of 2

A much smaller memory footprint (although with the way KDE works, it's
hard to be exact about it), a smaller download size (it's part of kdebase,
and the src.rpm is only a few Mb and it contains most of a desktop too)
and better stability than NS. It uses themable Qt and it's open source
(don't tell RMS).

It does kind of force you to use KDE though, which I suppose is the
main problem with it. But then, KDE is probably only as big as NSPR. :)

I get the feeling jwz is laughing his socks off right about now...


---------------------------------------------------------------------
Sheffield Linux User's Group - http://www.sheflug.co.uk
To unsubscribe from this list send mail to
- <sheflug-request [at] vuw.ac.nz> - with the word 
 "unsubscribe" in the body of the message. 

  GNU the choice of a complete generation.