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Subject:    RE: How about a IE clone for Linux?
From:       Jan Knutar <jkn2 () nic ! fi>
Date:       2000-03-20 17:56:11
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On Fri, 17 Mar 2000, Timothy R. Butler wrote:
> Frank,
>   I must disagree with you. (1) Microsoft, nor Apple, nor most reputable
> proprietary companies force new updates on you. I know too many people still
> using Windows 95 (rather the 98), and it is plenty of proof they don't. I
> also know a lot of people who have kept old versions of Internet Explorer
> (3.0 mainly), rather than upgrading. 

I've got IE2. Starts faster that Opera...

>MSIE in my opinion is much more
> intuitive and smarter than Netscape. 

Smarter? I've never really seen any intelligence in IE, not in Netscape
for that matter. It's off course nice when they fill in the end of an
URL you've typed before, but that's it. What I _really_ hate is the
intelligence of MSWord. That damn smiley (whatever) pops up at the
wrong times asking stupid questions. Heh, I couldn't even figure out
how to make a new document in the newest works. Kept asking stupid
questions about what type of document I wanted, spreadsheet I clicked.
But the program wasn't happy with that, it wanted to know more. Finally
I gave up....

> People don't want to think for their computers, they want their
> computers to think for them on most trivial tasks. For example, Windows
> automatically asks if I want to go online when I open an internet enabled
> application

Hmmm... IE4 didn't even ask when I had it installed. Did tell me
'dialing INTERNET' , but I hadn't even started IE4 yet....

>, Internet Explorer's intelli-stuff fills in forms, remembers
> URLs (and automagically suggests them, etc.) This is what people want. IMO.>

URL remembering is cool. Form filling might be good for some cases, but
I think it's better if websites use cookies for that.

What I don't want is some smart-ass electronical assistant that pops up
when I'm typing in Word. Loses focus from the typing are too, all that
I'm typing goes to that smart-ass so called AI... 

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