Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1999 02:13:59 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: des@flood.ping.uio.no (Dag-Erling Smorgrav) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, davids@webmaster.com, keramida@ceid.upatras.gr, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Judge: "Gates Was Main Culprit" Message-ID: <199911170213.TAA04574@usr08.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <xzpemdq3k28.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> from "Dag-Erling Smorgrav" at Nov 16, 99 09:41:19 am
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> > IE is not the best browser... though I will give them the GIF > > decoding JNI in their Java/JavaScript, since this is much faster > > than Netscape's "pure Java" implementation. > > You have to hand it to them - their rendering engine is much faster > and produces much nicer-looking results than Netscape's. There are two factors here: 1) Netscape changed its pallette for some reason which they still have not been able to explain, resulting in inconsistant coloring everywhere. This can be fixed in Mozilla, if anyone who cares about color rendering cares to fix the code; it may already have been fixed. 8-|. 2) The rendering engine in Netscape is in Java, which is by definition slower than binary code, as all interpreted languages are slower than compiled languages on all but bytecode interpreting hardware. This can also be fixed, but it's very hard to find other places where Netscape sucks compared to IE... other than OS integration, I guess. 8-). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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