prowsej - 2:51 am on Apr 25, 2002 (gmt 0)

I can appreciate your position, scotty. This is my opinion.

- Here in both Canada, Netscape4 usage is still around 25% of all browsers. In the U.S. it's still above 10%. It's only in worldwide statistics that it is at really low levels since virtually nobody in mainland Europe or Asia uses it. Because of the very large number of Netscape4 users (I think Canada is the second-highest in the world, per capita) in my country, I continue to design my pages around that browser's limits.
- I achieve cross-browser CSS2 support from IE5+/Win through these scripts: [and.doxdesk.com...] Hence, I design pages using valid CSS2 and they work in more than 90% of all browsers.
- I love IE's drag-and-drop right in the menu and rename by right-clicking bookmark management. It is one of the major reasons that I haven't switched to Mozilla. Simple bookmark management can be achieved right in the bookmark menu without even opening a different window, what could be simpler? And, when I want to do complex bookmark manipulation, I open the favorites folder in Explorer and use all of the powerful tools that I normally use on files on my bookmarks.
- Mozilla's greatest strength, IMO, is its cross-platform support. If it weren't for Mozilla's cross-platform design, there's no way that OSs like OS/2 or BeOS or a myriad of other OSs would have nearly as good browsers as Mozilla. If I used a myriad of platforms, I'd likely use Mozilla. However, I only use Win32 at home/work/school/friends. The only time I ever use *nix is as a server OS that I don't browse from.

Finally, security. Please explain this to me, because I've never understood about the need for security. I only visit "major" web pages like the New York Times or smaller websites that are from reputable sources. I feel confident that such sites aren't going to include any malicous scripts in their pages. Really, unless you frequent hackerz/warez sites, are you really likely to sumnle across a page that exploits one of these security problems?

Yes, IE has a terrible record with regards to security. They really should do a significantly better job with regards to secuirty. Share-sourcing the entire code-base would be an excellent start, IMO. However, what is the likelyhood of anyone being affected by the IE security vulnerabilities? Specifically with regards to the back button issue, what is the likelyhood that you are following a link from a trusted site/local computer file to a malicous site?