From: tim_one at email.msn.com (Tim Peters)
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 06:26:21 GMT
Subject: Crappy Software was Re: [OffTopic: Netscape] Re: How should 
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[Gordon McMillan, among others with Netscape vs IE experience]
> ...
> Having recently ported a sophisticated applet using JNI (Sun's new
> native interface) to JRI (older Netscape) and RNI (older IE), I too
> can kick and scream.
> [guess the outcome <wink>]

I'm no browser wizard -- just took a few stabs over the past year & a half
at writing some relatively simple Java applets, JavaScript and HTML for the
amusement of my family.  No CSS, no frames, nothing at all even remotely
cutting-edge.  One Netscape-using sister had dozens of problems with *all*
of these, most eventually determined to be cases of NS not meeting the
appropriate std, and-- far too often --crashing her machine.

Fact is NS dropped the browser ball a couple years ago, then poked holes in
it, then attached industrial-strength vacuum cleaners on the off chance any
air remained.

> ...
> When's the last time you closed a GUI from the file menu??

Hey, I'll close a stinking GUI any way I can <wink>.

right-next-to-my-reboot-foot-pedal-ly y'rs  - tim






