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I've switched browsers
Nov. 2nd, 2003 12:20 amNot earth-shattering, I know, but it's important to me.
I was trying to find something out in pursuit of a question I asked on John Crowley Readers about a movie that my friend Charles saw recently It turns out that the move, A Morning Sun, has a website which is done entirely in Flash, for which they deserve excoriation. Anyway, for quite some time, my version of IE has failed to properly acknowledge that it has Flash installed--I know it has Flash installed, I can go to the Macromedia page and see the Flash thingees doing their Flashy things, but more than half the Flash sites I visit refuse to acknowledge it. Anyway, I really wanted to poke around the site to try to find some key info, so I bit the bullet and installed Mozilla 1.5.
Anyway. So far, Mozilla lacks one very minor feature that I liked in IE 6, which is a direct "print this image" option on the RMB popup menu, but it makes up for it by having far more robust "isolate this image and let me do things with it" than IE does. Which isn't surprising, since some of those features date back to Netscape 2.0. For instance, it was a matter of two mouse-clicks to view in isolation and get the URL for this image:
Which is nice. It would have taken me a lot more work in IE 6. (There was a plug-in to IE 5 which would have made it almost as easy as Mozilla made it, but still. This is not arcane technology.
What's funny is that I was one of the early adopters of IE--I picked it up with version 2.0, before it was integrated into the Windows operating system. I stuck with IE initially because it seemed like the only software Microsoft was making which was actually trying to compete fairly on quality and stability with its competitors. Even as they also pursued the most ruthless practices they could to crush their competition, IE kept improving.
Then it stopped. IE 6 is not a significantly better program than IE 5. IE 5 came out five years ago. That's Mesolithic. I have barely started to explore Mozilla and I've already been able to retire two other pieces of software, my cookie manager and my popup blocker. (I still am running my ad banner blocker because it has some other features, like shutting off Javascript on a site-by-site basis, that I'm sure Mozilla can do either natively or with a plug-in, but I haven't found yet.)
So if your web pages look a little different to me these days, it's because I've changed. Thought you'd like to know.
I was trying to find something out in pursuit of a question I asked on John Crowley Readers about a movie that my friend Charles saw recently It turns out that the move, A Morning Sun, has a website which is done entirely in Flash, for which they deserve excoriation. Anyway, for quite some time, my version of IE has failed to properly acknowledge that it has Flash installed--I know it has Flash installed, I can go to the Macromedia page and see the Flash thingees doing their Flashy things, but more than half the Flash sites I visit refuse to acknowledge it. Anyway, I really wanted to poke around the site to try to find some key info, so I bit the bullet and installed Mozilla 1.5.
Anyway. So far, Mozilla lacks one very minor feature that I liked in IE 6, which is a direct "print this image" option on the RMB popup menu, but it makes up for it by having far more robust "isolate this image and let me do things with it" than IE does. Which isn't surprising, since some of those features date back to Netscape 2.0. For instance, it was a matter of two mouse-clicks to view in isolation and get the URL for this image:
Which is nice. It would have taken me a lot more work in IE 6. (There was a plug-in to IE 5 which would have made it almost as easy as Mozilla made it, but still. This is not arcane technology.
What's funny is that I was one of the early adopters of IE--I picked it up with version 2.0, before it was integrated into the Windows operating system. I stuck with IE initially because it seemed like the only software Microsoft was making which was actually trying to compete fairly on quality and stability with its competitors. Even as they also pursued the most ruthless practices they could to crush their competition, IE kept improving.
Then it stopped. IE 6 is not a significantly better program than IE 5. IE 5 came out five years ago. That's Mesolithic. I have barely started to explore Mozilla and I've already been able to retire two other pieces of software, my cookie manager and my popup blocker. (I still am running my ad banner blocker because it has some other features, like shutting off Javascript on a site-by-site basis, that I'm sure Mozilla can do either natively or with a plug-in, but I haven't found yet.)
So if your web pages look a little different to me these days, it's because I've changed. Thought you'd like to know.
