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Hello?!?! Let me break it down for you:
1)"Beta testers of a new version of Apple Computer's latest operating system..." - People testing "Jaguar"
2)" have been told it sports an integrated browser using technology developed by AOL's Netscape Communications" - were told it includes a Netscape based browser.
Is that simple enough for you?
Re: Re: Mozilla
Another thing (I'm not sure if you can change this) it when clicking links in Mail, it opens new windows (in Mozilla) every time you click on a new link...eg...reading MR mail...while in IE, it just reloads the one window with the new page...
Another thing (I'm not sure if you can change this) it when clicking links in Mail, it opens new windows (in Mozilla) every time you click on a new link...eg...reading MR mail...while in IE, it just reloads the one window with the new page...
Originally posted by Rower_CPU
Hello?!?! Let me break it down for you:
1)"Beta testers of a new version of Apple Computer's latest operating system..." - People testing "Jaguar"
2)" have been told it sports an integrated browser using technology developed by AOL's Netscape Communications" - were told it includes a Netscape based browser.
Is that simple enough for you?
Actually, KidRed's right. This is just a beta test of the new version of AOL for OS X, in which they integrated the Gecko engine (a la Mozilla) as opposed to including IE. Here's a link to a CNET Article discussing the AOL Beta.
I'm not arguing whether a browser is going to be built into OS X, I'm arguing the meaning of the quote at the start of the article.
It is a confusing statement that seems to imply that a browser will be built into Jaguar.
As a person who makes a living interpreting language and what people mean, I think it can be read both ways.
The quote sucks.
I suspect it MEANS that AOL is playing around with not using IE, but yes, it can read that Jaguar will have an non-IE web browser built in.
Shoot the author.
Gabriel
if you read more than the quote and actually read the article it is abundantly clear that they are discussing a new browser for aol not for jaguar.
But if we read the whole article and not just the one misleading paragraph, we wouldn't be able to extrapolate any rumor fodder from the statement...and then what kind of rumor site would we be?
hahaha...
still there are signs that apple will no longer distribute ie with new systems (or distribute ie and another browser like they used to do).
the august release of jaguar coincides with the end of the apple-ms deal.
apple has stopped displaying ie in many ads
apple's software guru used chimera
apple and aol have become increasingly close
apple's ichat may have been part of a deal where apple woudl start distributing netscape
the chimera folks are now part of the mozilla tree
chimera thanks apple in its credits
apple no longer needs ms, there are tons of ms office clones, ms makes too much money on officex and is in too big trouble legally to retaliate for apple pulling ie
if ie is on new computers come the release of 10.2 i will be very surprised. but it wont be an apple browser, most likely it will be netscape 7.
still there are signs that apple will no longer distribute ie with new systems (or distribute ie and another browser like they used to do).
the august release of jaguar coincides with the end of the apple-ms deal.
apple has stopped displaying ie in many ads
apple's software guru used chimera
apple and aol have become increasingly close
apple's ichat may have been part of a deal where apple woudl start distributing netscape
the chimera folks are now part of the mozilla tree
chimera thanks apple in its credits
apple no longer needs ms, there are tons of ms office clones, ms makes too much money on officex and is in too big trouble legally to retaliate for apple pulling ie
if ie is on new computers come the release of 10.2 i will be very surprised. but it wont be an apple browser, most likely it will be netscape 7.
Re: Open Doc
I may be wrong, but this was (and remains) my understanding.
Chris
My understanding of OpenDoc is/was different from this. I conceptualized it as one app that might have tools or functional toolbars of different applications. While I can see how OLE is similar to this, it is not nearly as comprehensive. Something closer would be if Word could take a table and perform a regression analysis on it by "borrowing" this functionality from Excel.
I may be wrong, but this was (and remains) my understanding.
Chris
OpenDoc vs. ActiveX
Yes, I think that's much closer. I thought about including this in my original description, except there's one critical difference. With OpenDoc, end users were supposed to gather "parts" and combine them simply by dragging and dropping. This is certainly not true of ActiveX. You can do it, but M$ doesn't want end users doing this. They want them to purchase Office.
While it's true to some extent that these were "dark days for Apple", this idea was pretty f*cking brilliant--way beyond anything that has been accomplished on any other platform. If Apple had had the juice to pull it off (and could have made it work well), it could have changed computing. Maybe they could never have made it work just right, but at least they had the balls to try it.
Chris
Yes, I think that's much closer. I thought about including this in my original description, except there's one critical difference. With OpenDoc, end users were supposed to gather "parts" and combine them simply by dragging and dropping. This is certainly not true of ActiveX. You can do it, but M$ doesn't want end users doing this. They want them to purchase Office.
While it's true to some extent that these were "dark days for Apple", this idea was pretty f*cking brilliant--way beyond anything that has been accomplished on any other platform. If Apple had had the juice to pull it off (and could have made it work well), it could have changed computing. Maybe they could never have made it work just right, but at least they had the balls to try it.
Chris
Hello?!?! Let me break it down for you:
1)"Beta testers of a new version of Apple Computer's latest operating system..." - People testing "Jaguar"
2)" have been told it sports an integrated browser using technology developed by AOL's Netscape Communications" - were told it includes a Netscape based browser.
Is that simple enough for you?
Let me break it down to you.
Why would beta testers of jaguar test AOL? That's for AOL to do (if they care)
They meant to say beta testers for the new AOL USING Apple's lateast OS.
And your second quote says it all- the new AOL browser will use Netscape as it's engine rather then IE.
Read more about it here before throwing
around lossely which shows your age and intelligence.
Originally posted by Kid Red
Let me break it down to you.
Why would beta testers of jaguar test AOL? That's for AOL to do (if they care)
They meant to say beta testers for the new AOL USING Apple's lateast OS.
And your second quote says it all- the new AOL browser will use Netscape as it's engine rather then IE.
Read more about it here before throwing
I was arguing the fact that you misread the sentence, which has long been established as poorly written...why don't you go back and read the rest of the thread before dredging up a quote that's not applicable anymore?