Re: [PLUG] Netscape 6 PR1

["Michael Leone" <turgon@pil.net>]

And here's ZDNet/PCWeeks's take:

"Netscape 6 also introduces a unique interface that we found simultaneously
helpful and frustrating. Buttons have been streamlined to the bare
essentials: Back, Forward, Reload and Stop. Buttons for bookmarks, Home and
MyNetscape have been moved to a slim pseudomenu bar. Component access has
been moved to a slim bar that runs across the bottom of the screen, as have
some menus, such as those for shopping and tools.

These changes serve to reduce the available screen real estate to less than
that provided by Communicator 4.7. Also, unlike IE 5.0, Netscape 6 did not
offer an option to customize the buttons or menu items in the interface."

http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/news/0,4153,2510507,00.html

Verdict - they liked it, from a technological point of view.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel W. Ottey" <dottey@snarfykat.org>
To: <plug@lists.nothinbut.net>
Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2000 10:38 AM
Subject: Re: [PLUG] Netscape 6 PR1


> 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....
>



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