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There is a way to deal with this issue. Report it to them as a bug. Goto the 'Help' menu in NN6 and select 'Feedback Center'. At least they provide a way to complain about bugs. To
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Great demo.
I had similar problems with form elements. Setting the dimensions as fixed values is fine (though IE and NS use seemingly completely different scales) but as soon as you try using percentages NS just gets all confused and gives up.
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I don't know how this renders in Netscape, but the second table has 0 height in IE5
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Personally I was surprised to see it render at all. I excpected the discussion board to display the html code.
It actually should take 100% of the height.
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Now that Netscape is 'componentized' (like IE has been since version 3), wouldn't it be possible to wrap the NN6 browser in a COM object that exposes the IWebBrowser interfaces? To me that would mean that with a little Registry change any app that uses an integrated browser would use NN6's engine. Issues would arise from incompatibilities between the browsers, but people could have a choice. Then the browser would just be a 'component' of the os which comes with IE out of the box. To
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Absolutely! And to my thinking, this is the crux of the whole anti-trust issue with IE being integrated into Windows. If you look at it this way it's a non issue.
Giving user the choice between the gecko engine and IE would be sweet
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Lookie what i found...
http://www.iol.ie/~locka/mozilla/mozilla.htm
Seems like it might happen after all. To
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I've been using the new browser since it came out, plus beta versions of Mozilla 5, and I'd have to say it feels like Netscape have taken 2 steps forward and one step back.
Adhering more closely to W3C's recommendations and supporting XML are Good Things. Netscape 6 handles stylesheets far more robustly than the old version (from my limited testing). I am also glad Netscape no longer insists on contacting the server each time you do a resize of the window, though viewing page source still requires another download. The non-standard GUI puts me off a little (well, a lot), as does the lack of tooltips. I've also found that with a minimum install of NS6, javascript generated years are non-Y2K compliant. Maybe I missed an important step somewhere...
Still, it is important to remember this preview release 1. Maybe by the time it's released fully it will be slick. And maybe by that time Microsoft will have released their Mars technology..
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I basicly agree. It feels goofy in places, mostly because it lacks some of the 'standard' ui features that most expect of a Windows app. They still use that 2 color heavy 3d border for tables. It seems pretty slow on my machine... when it loads up and when browsing. i'm also glad that they choose not to "infect" my machine with AOL products... well at least they ask first. Now if they could only force those NN3 users to upgrade. To
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I agree that the UI is ugly. I believe that it is intended to allow easy XP support.
Fortunately, it is also a plug-in component. Several alternates(not yet complete)
are available. Head over to www.mozillazine.com and check out the ChromeZone.
The Sullivan Skin looks very promising
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The rendering engine seems excellent but everything else is a miss in this browser. Sure it'll support tons of platforms and be much more compliant than anything Microsoft will ever put out but if I want to check movie listings I don't have time to fight with a klunky UI. That's what the average user is going to experience anyway.
As much as I hate the UI I have to mention that the printing is much improved but MS is now offering Print Preview in IE 5.5 so again, I'm afraid Netscape might be a step behind. The preview release also doesn't support drag & drop. I hope this is just in PR1 and not the final release.
I was hoping so much that this version would be killer and take the web browser to the next level but it's got a long way to go and I'm afraid MS isn't going to wait.
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