Thank God 4 AOL
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- ribit0
Hey maybe this is even better!... every platform will have it's own integrated/supported browser, and so we are guaranteed that there will be no dominance by Microsoft beyond their actual user-base.... which is err 80-90% (depending on your market) ... hmmm.
(we have a rather substantial 10% Mac users visiting our online design magazine, 1% Unix, and around 88% Windows)
- 256greys0
Zeldman says: "if you want an improved version of IE5/Mac, you will apparently have to subscribe to Microsoft’s MSN service." ( http://www.zeldman.com/daily/050… )
- ribit0
so maybe this will just help the switch to Safari...
- 256greys0
I should just shut up, the personal site I'm working on is a chromeless IE+WIN only site. eheh.
Now yell at me. :)
- kala0
- corin0
http://www.zeldman.com/daily/050…
i think this discussion should begin again. (although i know this link was posted two responses ago)
- ********0
yeah, just for the hell of it I went to mozilla's website to see what the deelio... mozilla is not even available for my system so I guess I can't even check it out.
also, these transparency and alpha channels that somone crooned about... are these standardized features sanctioned by the ww3?
- kpl0
chris lea was talking about alpha channel support in png files.
and png graphics is a w3c standard. waay back in 96.
- corin0
PNG Second Edition Is a W3C Proposed Recommendation
27 May 2003: W3C is pleased to announce the publication of the Portable Network Graphics (PNG) Specification (Second Edition) as a Proposed Recommendation. Comments are invited through 23 June. PNG is a graphics file format for raster images. Indexed-color, grayscale, and truecolor images are supported, plus an optional alpha channel. The document is in the final stages of standardization at ISO as an International Standard, ISO/IEC 15948.
- zzzmarcus0
"mozilla is not even available for my system so I guess I can't even check it out. "
i very seriously doubt that
- corin0
Youngpup has hack that apparently allows transperency to be viewed in IE if you're interested -
http://www.youngpup.net/?request…
I haven't actually tried it yet though
- ********0
I didn't see OS 9.2.2 in there...
I'm confused the post above was talking about tranparencies.. is this a standard? transparency tweaking or is that a feature introduced by mozilla.
- kpl0
transparencies -> png alpha channels. Like GIF transparency, except with alpha blending.
It's been a standard. But mozilla was the first to implement it.
- ********0
my bad I meant to say opacity. chl mentioned that there was a way to tweak opacity - unless he was actually talking about the same thing you are...
ugh, I think we're in for another round of browser wars... when will it end ?!?
- kpl0
I think he was...reading his stuff again it seemed like it.
but there is an opacity attribute in css3, and mozilla was experimenting with it using their own -moz-opacity attribute. I don't know if mozilla uses opacity yet, css3 isn't a set standard yet. ie can also do alpha via their filter attribute.
- ********0
exit strategy = real estate
"yeah I'm a web designer" "yeah the same thing your cousin does" "well what's your budget?" "oh $500?" "uh... sure I can do it"
peace out web world...
- angelus350
I went to a Microsoft T2 Seminar a month or so ago. The speaker confirmed that IE6 is the last version of Internet Explorer as we know it. He said that you better like MSN Explorer or start liking it because that's where the development team is shifting too. I haven't seen any literature on this statement, only what was said by the Microsoft rep.