Women in Technology

Article:		Writers' Talk With Guest Wil Shipley
Subject:		So far, so beautiful
Date:		2001-05-20 01:40:10
From:		tedmcdonald
Enjoyed the dialogue with Will Shipley and others. Was amazed to learn that the browser has real roots...it shows...this browser has developed into something quite remarkable...I hope that it can continue blossoming. I was very impressed with IE 5 for Mac OS9 (it was the first time that I had started using an MS browser as my default after the abomination of NS 6); however, the OSX IE 5.1 shows no improvement other than a SLOWDOWN in performance...sad. So, I am using OmniWeb as my default OSX browser.

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• So far, so beautiful
  2001-05-22 06:33:12  Daniel H. Steinberg | [View]
  
  
  I agree with Ted's comments. Part of what drove me to use IE on OS 9 was the support for Java and XML and lack of performance from Netscape. I do think that the Mac business unit of MS seems to understand Mac users differently and hope that IE will be improved on OS X in the future. I've taken it off of my machine because I had system crashing errors that only seemed to occur when running IE.
  
  I've been very happy with OMNI and look forward to future versions of their product. I'd like to know what percent of the estimated downloads are willing to pay for OMNI to help keep Wil in business. Are Mac users willing to pay for a product that they prefer?
  
  Could it be that once Opera is ported and Netscape is updated we'll have four browsers on Mac OS X?
  
  Daniel

• So far, so beautiful
  2001-05-20 23:21:39  Derrick Story | [View]
  
  
  I think the points that Wil made concerning IE 5.1 for Mac OS X are good ones, especially that some of the browser's performance difficulties come from the actual Carbon conversion, which is more of an Apple issue than the fault of IE.
  
  I keep IE 5.1 on my hard drive because it can still handle certain web pages better than the other OS X browers, including OmniWeb (at least for the time being).
  
  But given a choice, OmniWeb gets my vote right now, and is my current default browser.