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Re: [PLUG] Netscape 6 PR1
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I agree whole-heartedly with this guy's opinion. About a week or two ago
I was playing around with a version of mozilla that I found. Ithad the
same basic look and feel as this new pre-release of NS6. I didn't like it
at all - too cluttered and just weird. It reminded me of something which
I felt must hav ebeen written in some weird programming language - like
how tcl/tk apps look a lot different than standard apps. I deleted the
mozillaa right then because I couldn't bare to use it. I figured when
Netscape finally did release the new version, that they would use the
regular programming language (or sumthin) and get it to look atleast
somewhat like what I am used to in Netscape 4.x. Well form what I see
today of this pre-release, its crap. I don't know HOW they think they're
going to pull users from IE... In fact, I think they're going to loose
users.
Thats just my opinion....
Daniel W. Ottey
Pre-Junior Information Systems Student
Drexel University - Philadelphia, PA
http://www.snarfykat.org/
AOL-IM: Snarf2002 - http://www.aim.aol.com/
ICQ: 5723666 - http://www.mirabilis.com/
On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, Michael Leone wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Martin DiViaio" <scatterbrained@mailandnews.com>
> To: "PLUG" <plug@lists.nothinbut.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2000 7:34 PM
> Subject: [PLUG] Netscape 6 PR1
>
>
> > Yes, yes, I know it's not due out till tomorrow... Well...
> >
> > It's available now!
> >
> >
> ftp://ftp.netscape.com/pub/netscape6/english/6_PR1/unix/linux22/netscape-v60
> 0pr1.x86-unknown-linux2.2.tar.gz
> >
> > It's the Pre-release version #1. With all the disclaimers and (probably)
> > bugs that go with it. Anyone besides me crazy enough to try it?
>
> Saw this on my Lockergnome mailing list. One writer's opinion of the Windows
> version:
>
> If you hadn't already heard, Netscape 6.0 (preview release 1) is out. So
> what do I think about it? The UI has taken a giant leap backwards, and you
> know how I feel about cruddy UI's. I know we're taught to like someone for
> who they are and not for what they look like. Still, I don't know what those
> folks were smoking when they put this puppy together. White in windows was
> great in the days of Windows 3.1, but Netscape 6.0 looks like an old 16-bit
> app. Sure, it's a cosmetic thing, but wouldn't you rather use something more
> visually appealing? You may disagree with my assessment, and that's fine.
> Give it a shot, draw your own conclusions. Beauty is in the eye of the
> downloader.
>
> I haven't tried it, so I'm not qualified to say.
>
>
>
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