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Technology Stocks : MSFT Internet Explorer vs. NSCP Navigator -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Reginald Middleton who wrote (16484)	1/21/1998 4:48:00 AM
From: Bill Ulrich	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

&#147You are not sticking to the facts.&#148 The Micromafia came after Compaq for making a decision which Compaq is completely free to make. So I am sticking to the facts. &#147you will find that IE is far superior to Nav in nearly all aspects except for pure vanilla HTML rendering. It is far more flexible as well.&#148 As a web designer, it is necessary for me to have NN2/NN3/NN4 + IE3/IE4 on my machine for testing purposes. I'm completely aware that you are wrong as the design decisions I have to make have to take into consideration all of these browsers. Design compromises which I have to make are often the result of an IE short-coming. &#147Could Nav do this?&#148 Well, that's hard to say because your page won't open. Your server is down maybe? I've tried it several times in the writing of this message. Funny, my connection seems to be fine. See for yourself. magneticdiary.com -MrB&#153

To: Reginald Middleton who wrote (16484)	1/21/1998 11:43:00 AM
From: Daniel Schuh	Respond to of 24154

To: Reginald Middleton who wrote (16484)	1/21/1998 10:11:00 PM
From: Keith Hankin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

If you bother to go through the browsers features one by one, and examine their capabilities, you will find that IE is far superior to Nav in nearly all aspects except for pure vanilla HTML rendering. It is far more flexible as well. And if this were not true, do you think that MSFT's quick gain of marketshare would not be occurring? Yes, it might be not quite as quick, but I believe that most of the gains are the result of MSFT illegally leveraging their monopoly, not as a result of any technical superiority. All I and many others on this thread are advocating is that MSFT not be allowed to illegally leverage their marketshare to win. If their product is indeed technologically superior and remains so, then they'll win anyways. As it is, they can already legally leverage other advantages they have such as their long experience, sales channels, brand name, etc.