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1. Comment - First IE6 Service Pack Begins Testing

   (Nov 30, 2001 - 6:48 PM)

   Hmmmm, well standards compliance is a hallucination that will never exist.
   
   Mainly because Microsoft pulls out their check book to convine web developers to use IE-only pages, and IE, as we all know, is really a sorry mess under it's pretty interface, it doesn't support standard HTML, in fact Microsoft arrogantly added non-existent tags to screw up non-MS browsers, and their implementation of JAVA is pitiful, a proprietary VM based off of a very old SUN JRE (1.1, SUN is now on 1.3.1 btw), although this is bound to improve now that MS has been forced to ship a decaffeinated IE 6 with Windows XP, and let customers DECIDE to use the industry standars SUN VM if they wish it, which you can hear Microsoft b**** and moan about at http://www.microsoft.com/java
   
   And while we are on the topic, IE (especially version 6) is a bloated hog, a full install, which is included with Windows, takes over 110 megs, whereas Netscape Communicator (without AIM, do a search, you'll find out how to avoid installing it) is only 18.5 megs, and thats WITH multimedia and flash, as well as JAVA, Composer, Mail/News, etc.!!!
   
   I don't like IE, it simply is too slow for my taste, and Netscape 6.2, don't even go there.
   
   I still use Netscape Communicator 4.79, and if these so-called "web developers" want to lock out anything but MSIE, I'll seek out a similar site, or one of their competitiors to do business with.
   
   And that brings me to why you SHOULD NOT lock out anyone but MSIE users:
   
   1. Internet devices, things like WEBTV that can't have their browser upgraded.
   
   2. People who do not want to use IE.
   
   3. People who can't take the huge system performance hit that installing, using, or keeping IE entails, I use 98lite, a utility that removes IE from Windows 98 and installs the fast Windows 95
   shell, this gains back system performance, and I'm not about to re-install IE just because a developer is too lazy to write good pages.