From kde Thu Mar 16 09:34:03 2000 From: Rob Kaper Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 09:34:03 +0000 To: kde Subject: Re: How about a IE clone for Linux? X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde&m=95319895007211 On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 10:19:25AM +0100, Alessandro Bottoni wrote: > As a conclusion: would not be the time to start a project aimed to create a > REAL replacement for MS IE, at least in the Linux environment? I do not > think we should run after MS, accepting its standards violations, but we > cannot keep on criminalising the user that does not understand "why using MS > IE is just a plain bad thing"... We should accept this challenge and produce > something equivalent/better/different/comparable to IE. Am I wrong? > > Let me know what you think about it. If we can not succeed in making Mozilla/Konqy 'technically superior' and a worthy, competing product, we would not succeed in making a proper IE clone either. I'd rather see devotion to one of those two projects than yet another browser. www.mozilla.org www.kde.org Rob -- Rob Kaper | cap@capsi.com cap@capsi.cx cap@atomickitten.cx cap@loves.lana.cx | http://capsi.com/ http://capsi.cx/ telnet://chat.capsi.cx:2300/ | "These are the people who proudly call themselves "hackers" -- | not as the term is now abused by journalists to mean a computer | criminal, but in its true and original sense of an enthusiast, | an artist, a tinkerer, a problem solver, an expert." -- ESR -- Send posts to: kde@lists.netcentral.net Send all commands to: kde-request@lists.netcentral.net Put your command in the SUBJECT of the message: "subscribe", "unsubscribe", "set digest on", or "set digest off" PLEASE READ THE ARCHIVED MESSAGES AT http://lists.kde.org/ BEFORE POSTING ********************************************************************** This list is from your pals at NetCentral