When can we expect Microsoft Internet Explorer 6
Okay, lots of you people are a bit biased against Microsoft. This thread is not supposed to be about that.
I was wondering, while building a site, and looking at it with Explorer and Chimera, that Chimera actually often does a better job at displaying (I mean, it's real cocoa, I have the impression: e.g. input type = "submit" in Explorer gives you this OS 9 - ish button, whereas Chimera makes it one of those nice lickable ones.).
On the other hand, Chimera is buggy (and badly so, I know this is not even a 1.0 but still, e.g. everytime i press apple-n to open a new window, I get all kinds of psychedelic looking windows that seem to have run straight out of a freshman's ProjectBuilder Project).
And of course, Explorer is still the number one is consumer land. So when is Explorer going to go 6, and what good will that do?
Will they finally go cocoa?
Will they get faster?
???
I was wondering, while building a site, and looking at it with Explorer and Chimera, that Chimera actually often does a better job at displaying (I mean, it's real cocoa, I have the impression: e.g. input type = "submit" in Explorer gives you this OS 9 - ish button, whereas Chimera makes it one of those nice lickable ones.).
On the other hand, Chimera is buggy (and badly so, I know this is not even a 1.0 but still, e.g. everytime i press apple-n to open a new window, I get all kinds of psychedelic looking windows that seem to have run straight out of a freshman's ProjectBuilder Project).
And of course, Explorer is still the number one is consumer land. So when is Explorer going to go 6, and what good will that do?
Will they finally go cocoa?
Will they get faster?
???
Comments
The only info anyone's got, so far . . .
no way MS is going to re-write it until then and even then i doubt it
comprised of people who do write good software
haven't tried ie6 yet on my win2k box but if they
do make one i hope it will implement tabbed browsing & pop-ups control
i really like way konquerer implements it
so far ie5.2 on 10.2.1 seems to be running ok
didnt notice any speed diff but then again i find
a ti800 slow at times ( again could be simply me)
lol asking a ms q here is asking for trouble
ive just recently started using a mac & found that
rate of bigotism amongst mac users is ridiculous.........some of apples stuff is good & some crappy just like on other platforms
i use ie5.5 & moz 1.0 under win2k....
tab browsing does get addictive after a while
for backward compatibility ?
apple will eventually drop support so companies
will have no choice but to move to cocca
kinda like win16 vs win32
<strong>isnt the carbon api for backward compatibility ?</strong><hr></blockquote>
Yes, but is that its only purpose? NO.
Carbon is perfectly valid for native Mac OS X-only software. Some code written in Carbon will perform BETTER than than code written in Cocoa. Carbon is a peer with Cocoa, even more so in 10.2 than 10.1.
This subject has been rehashed to death. I strongly suggest searching the forums for old threads about Carbon vs. Cocoa so that this doesn't ignite a flame war.
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These two could point to cocoa.
Another nuisance: one version of the PHP manual (of PHP.org) consists of 2000+ HTML files dumped in one folder. Some file-titles are longer than allowed in OS 9 (these PHP people are clearly UNIX adepts). It's a pain, first to unpack them without damaging them (i.e. clipping names).
Then, if you get them unpacked, very often, explorer will say: file not found, because for some reason, it does not work with the new extended file titles (or maybe links to them.)
Anyway: this seems to be pointing to a bad carbonize job. (or doesn't it? maybe I'm just full of shit).