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Post by: Ray Abbitt on April 21, 2004, 11:59:21 PM
And for a number of reasons IE is probably the worst choice you can make in browsers, regardless of platform.
Fits with my findings using Konqueror. Kongueror is the web browser used with KDE (the K Desktop Environment) on Linux and Unix systems and Safari is based on the same code and rendering engine as Konqueror. Good choice.
And Camino is from the same developers as Mozilla. (Seems strange that there is both Mozilla and Camino--how do they compare since I don't have a Mac to try them on) Hmmm, just noticed something strange. Linux and Mac users seem to have more good choices in browsers than Windows users. Windows users will probably have the best results with Mozilla (or Firefox if you don't mind being a bit beyond the cutting edge). Mac users have good choices with Mozilla, Safari or Camino. And Linux users....won't even be tempted to use Internet Exploiter because we can't (and we don't miss it a bit) but can use Konqueror (small, fast, well behaved), Mozilla (more familiar), Firefox and a host of other browsers. -ray -Mikey P[/quote] Post by: Dave Stevens on April 22, 2004, 01:18:55 AM
I believe the actual team is different, though the module owner may be the same. They are both Mozilla projects. Mozilla uses the Carbon set of APIs that allow for procedural languages to interface with OS X. This is how most of the existing Mac apps were initially ported to native OS X. You can use C, C++, Fortan to code your app and access the APIs. Camino (formerly Chimera) is developed using the Cocoa framework. It's an OO framework, in Objective C and is specific to OS X. The widgets are portable in the framework, the interface tool provides a rich set of elements with which to design and implement native Aqua interface elemaents. Cocoa is basically NeXtStep, updated for OS X. Dave Post by: Ray Abbitt on April 22, 2004, 01:29:02 AM To put it slightly more on-topic though, despite a few teething difficulties (some of them self caused) I'm coming to appreciate this system more all the time. I have notice a bit of the over aggressive "marked as read" behavior mentioned in another thread, but other than that, I'm really beginning to like it. Thanks for your efforts. -ray |