Now, at least on the Macintosh side of the OS divide, the argument defines IE is barely more vital, although it functions reasonably well and is But never fear, the human imagination is fecund, and combined with the Safari, as all Macsters know by now, is hands down overall the fastest Well, baby, the honeymoon is over. There’s a new hot babe in the There are some sites, particularly ones where we are using the browser The problem is that on the Mac, the pallet does not appear on the compose Anyway, the point of the post is that a new We are rather annoyed It seems like only yesterday that the biggest battle in Cyberspace was the Browser War between Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and Netscape’s Navigator. Now, at least on the Macintosh side of the OS divide, the argument defines moot. Netscape got bought … Continue reading ![](\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/hmoz.jpg\")
<\/a>It
\n seems like only yesterday that the biggest battle in Cyberspace was the
\n Browser War between Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and Netscape’s Navigator.\n <\/p>\n
\n moot. Netscape got bought up by America Online, which promptly led it
\n out behind barracks, shot it full of holes, and left it to die. Has anybody
\n even looked at Netscape lately to check out how bizarrely it mangles
\n css? The Dowbrigade on Netscape circa 2004 looks a lot like the Dowbrigade
\n on that bad brown acid, circa 1974.<\/p>\n
\n still the #1 browser worldwide. As such, it cannot be ignored by
\n web designers whatever platform they are using personally. But
\n Microsoft has is no longer supporting IE for the Mac, and no new versions
\n are expected.<\/p>\n
\n capitalist motivational motor seems capable of providing us with an endless
\n stream
\n of advancement, innovation and improved functionality. There is a new
\n browser war brewing, at least on our desktop. The combatants? Safari<\/a> and Mozilla<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\n browser out there. It handles css flawlessly, and although Apple’s
\n implementation of Java continues to be dodgy, most functionality is built
\n in and plugins
\n are available for what isn’t. In addition is has Apple’s trademark
\n design touches, tabbed browsing (after one gets used to this feature,
\n it becomes a necessity the absence of which is tremedously annoying)
\n and good bookmark management.
\n Everything one wants in a browser, no?<\/p>\n
\n neighborhood, and she’s got some moves. Mozilla is the latest iteration
\n of a very polished open-source project which, in my limited understanding
\n of things technical, shares with Netscape a certain amount of genetic
\n material and some common ancestors. It’s full-featured but has the feel
\n of a stripped-down hot-rod.Like early versions of Netscape Communicator
\n it is a suite including Mail and Newsgroup readers, IRC client and a
\n Composer module for basic web creation.<\/p>\n
\n as an interface to do complicated things on far-away servers, like site
\n administration or blog updating, where Safari tends to bog down. Not
\n Mozilla. In addition, in our blogging tool of choice, Manila,
\n there is a set of tags which create a very useful formatting pallet on
\n the "compose post" page. This pallet allows one to format text and pictures,
\n add links, etc. Although we usually compose our posts in Dreamweaver
\n and copy and paste an html table into the compose post box, it is nice
\n to have the pallet for quick and dirty composition, or for when we are
\n using a foreign computer without Dreamweaver installed.<\/p>\n
\n post page in Internet Explorer. Or on Netscape, or even on Safari.
\n None of those browsers support the tags that create the pallet. Mozilla
\n does, and that is reason enough to have it ready, if not to use it full-time.<\/p>\n
\n version of Mozilla<\/a> was just
\n released, 1.6. It
\n is a free download for Mac, Windows and Linux.The Dowbrigade is going
\n to install it as soon as we finish posting this, and will compare it
\n with the Safari\/Mail combination we are using now. The results will be reported in this space after testing. <\/p>\n
\n at Mac’s Mail program right now as well, as it just downloaded 600 of
\n my private email messages to a computer we were using in someone else’s
\n office at work for like FIVE MINUTES, without asking permission or letting me know, but that’s
\n another story…<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"