RE: Netscape vs. Internet Explorer Comparison trials

rkm ( rkm@marshall.net )
Mon, 26 Jan 1998 09:06:30 -0500

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This comment reflects your obvious ignorance. Java and other "sandbox" =
based languages are terribly limited in what they can access on a local =
client hard drive and are therefore very limited in what they can do. =
ActiveX (previously OLE) is an incredibly powerful croos platform =
cross-application method of implementation that will be around long =
after netscape has gone away. Netscape's failure to implement the OBJECT =
tag as specified by the WWW consortium is the issue I was talking about, =
which has nothing to do with bloat, performance, or "application =
suites". It has to do with how HTML is coded.

The netshow player handles real audio feeds as a stand alone application =
without any suites or add ons. Before you post something sounding so =
authoritarian get your facts straight. You don't even know what you are =
talking about.

-----Original Message-----
From: Gregory W. Bondy [SMTP:gbondy@MAELSTROM.NET]
Sent: Sunday, January 25, 1998 9:49 PM
To: ntisp@emerald.iea.com
Subject: RE: Netscape vs. Internet Explorer Comparison trials

I'm at the moment listening to the live stadium feed using realaudio.
Better sound quality and it doesn't require a CPU gagging, HD-hogging
"suite" of "multimedia applets". ActiveX is the poor-man's Win32-ised
java-lite. Anything it can do, other applications or languages can do
better, faster, and more portably.

It looks to me that if M$ can't handle the Justice Department very soon
they will be dead.

;)

At 08:12 PM 1/25/98 -0500, you wrote:
>One of the browser things we are comparing is streaming audio and =
video..
right now I am listening to the live superbowl stadium feed using the NT
netshow player on an NT box with p133 32mb ram while watching the TV =
video
feed and it is impressing the hell out of me!
>
>It looks to us that if Netscape can't handle activeX very soon they =
will
be dead.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Chilton [SMTP:chilton@trag.com]
>Sent: Saturday, January 24, 1998 3:46 PM
>To: ntisp@emerald.iea.com; inet-access@earth.com
>Subject: Netscape vs. Internet Explorer Comparison trials
>
>Ok, I've had it with the pathetic browser comparison pages. I'm doing =
my=20
>own. But I need your help!
>
>What aspects should I compare? Here are the ones I have schemed up so=20
>far. Please let me know if there are other aspects that I have missed,=20
>that are important to you, and for that matter, your users.
>
>Aspects:
>
>Java compatability
>Memory requirements
>Hard drive space requirements
>Minimum system requirements
>Reliance on TSRs, Extensions, Inits, and other system level software
>Speed at loading a page of text
>Speed at loading a page of tables and text
>Speed at loading a graphically intense page
>Speed at loading a page with frames, tables, text, and lots of graphics
>
>Did I miss one? Several? Let me know and this week I'll host a massive=20
>test to find out who is the true winner, or at least what each one is=20
>better at.
>
>-Chilton Webb
>
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