[lug] Microsoft drops support for Netscape tools

[John Starkey]

Thus spake Evelyn Mitchell (efm at tummy.com):

> On Sat, Aug 25, 2001 at 11:15:56AM -0600, Bill Thoen wrote:
> > 
> > Are there are any really up-to-date alternatives for web browsers
> > here in Linux-land? (I'm new to it, and currently my L-box hasn't
> > got enough memory to run a GUI so I am stuck with Links and Lynx for
> > the nonce. But I'm working at putting another one together that will
> > have more memory.) 
> 
> I've been enjoying Konqueror. Good CSS support, a lot faster than
> Netscape, and stable. It has yet to hang my X, and when it crashes,
> it only kills the bad window, not all of them.

I'll second that one. 

I just checked a site that's a pretty hard design. The guy that did it racked his brain on iMac IE and NN. I checked it in Konquerer and it parsed exactly as intended. 

Mozilla/Linux totally trashes the same site. Some td cells are invading others.

NN parses it fine, but those damned form fields. Eeeeeshk. NN 4.7 is all I've been using; I think I may be going with Konquerer from now on.

I've heard that NN 6.1 is out and looking pretty good with the exception of some JS issues. Not sure if they have a Linux version out yet.