Re: What is an AS/400? -- MIDRANGE-L

No way man, I am forced to use both NetScab and IE5 in order to support our users and I am floored time and time again at how much more powerful NetScape is. If we are talking about NS 4.0 vs. IE5, well the major drawback with IE5 are the desktop integration and the almost unlimited openness to VB scripting.

IE is a rather sloppy HTML parser too, just look at some of the thing you can slip by IE that NS won't fly. And IE introduced all those IE only html tags that caused the browser wars in the first place.

Now, if we are talking about IE5.5 vs. NS 6.0 then I will agree with ya IE would win that match but any of the NS 4.* browsers are still better than IE. Come in out of the rain.

-----Original Message-----
From: Stone, Brad V (TC) <bvstone@taylorcorp.com>
To: 'MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com' <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Date: Wednesday, August 09, 2000 8:46 AM
Subject: RE: What is an AS/400?

I assume that your joking calling Netscape the best browser. It's lightyears behind IE. Just check out alt.netscape.sucks for some great examples of why it blows.

Brad

-----Original Message-----
From: Leslie Russell [mailto:leslier@datrek.com]
Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2000 5:21 PM
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject: Re: What is an AS/400?

How can you not fully support the most popular browser? After all Netscape is the better of the two browsers, it looks like the folks at RpgenX are shooting themselves in the foot.

BTW did any of you happen to read what someone posted on another list about the huge security hole they found in Netscape which allows a scripter to not only browse but affect changes to your hard drive? I have not been able to verifiy the veracity of this story but it comes from a poster who is know to be solid.

-----Original Message-----
From: Stone, Brad V (TC) <bvstone@taylorcorp.com>
To: 'MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com' <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Date: Tuesday, August 08, 2000 2:56 PM
Subject: RE: What is an AS/400?

It's still not tuned for Netscape which I think is the main problem. IE runs fine, from 4.0 and up.

-----Original Message-----
From: Rob Dixon [mailto:rob.dixon@erros.co.uk]
Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2000 10:53 AM
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject: Re: What is an AS/400?

Brad
"Stone, Brad V (TC)" wrote:
You also mentioned you were looking for "success stories". I think it's a good example to show what it can do with it's legacy language, OS, etc.. etc...
I certainly did but did not realise that you were responding to that part of my post - my apologies. BTW, I personally have not been able to get much out of the site. I find it consistantly slow, (a 51K image on the second page doesn't help) and if I click on "JOIN", I get a blank page. As yet, I cannot rate it a success story.

Rob
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