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><geek mode=rant> >For my day job, I just spent the better part of a day >pounding on an issue that effected less than 1% of our >audience. Unfortunately, it also effected the vast >majority of engineers here. > >Basically, Netscape 4.x cannot properly handle >multiple processes correctly, yet insists on using >them. The result is that random characters can be >inserted into the input buffers. Not a big issue for >things like pictures and sounds, since most of these >can handle things like that, but a real pain in the >ass when you're including javascript. > >Please, Save your sanity and keep yourself from >looking like an idiot when you flame the page author, >Stop Using Netscape 4.x. > >Granted, Mozilla is insanely slow (although now I know >why it's named after a large lizard) on most boxes, >and Opera is only available for select versions and >distributions, which pretty much leaves you with, >well, something else. > >Actually, (and I'm sure folks will love me for this) >Unix pretty much sucks as a desktop. Don't get me >wrong, Unix excells as a server, but for day-to-day >use, the GUIs and window managers just blow cheap >grits. > >Why is that? > >Well, pretty much for the same reasons that Microsoft >blows as a server. Microsoft was initially designed as >a desktop with heavy user input. Unix was designed as >a pipe process machine with little user input. > >Unfortunately, layering on a complex application >system to attempt to change this fundemental >architecture doesn't work, in either case. > >At work I develop in Unix and use NT as my interface. >So, basically, I've got 15 to 20 terminals open on my >screen at any given point. I also run MSIE, Opera, >Mozilla, Netscape 4.* and 6, all within Windows. I >seldom have problems performing any task I've needed, >and if I do, it takes me about 10 seconds longer. > >If you don't like Windows, fine. Get a Mac. It works >just as well, provided you're accustomed to it. > >If you feel that There Can Only Be One system, >however, I encourage you to <a rel=nofollow >target=_blank >href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/02/05/27 >/020527opestrat.xml">at least reconsider</a>. > >>/geek>

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