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  • Of course Mozilla doesn't use any of those MacOS specific features. It's a cross-platform browser, which is shorthand for bringing the lowest-common-denominator mediocrity of Windows whereever it happens to tread. :-)

    I wonder how easy it would be to take gecko and throw it into something more Mac-friendly...

    • It's certainly conceivable, but who would do it? The good thing is that someday when I move to Mac OS X, there is plenty of development over there, on browsers like Chimera, which is just that, supposedly: Gecko-based browser with Cocoa-based UI.
      • Does Cocoa have the same kind of system-wide preferences that MacOS does?

          Cocoa is just an API. You can write software to the Cocoa API to produce Macintosh applications, just like you can write software to the Carbon API to produce Macintosh applications.

          I think you're asking if Mac OS X supports Internet Config, and the answer is "sort of, not really". IC isn't nearly as configurable as it was in Mac OS 9.
      • I thought you were going to hole up in OS 9 for the duration. :) I was expecting to see you launch an OpenMacOSClassic project some day.

  • Be glad you don't use RISC OS. Every browser there sucks even worse. Doesn't help that none are under active development.

    Browse was looking up, but then the company developing it was bought and they lost that division. Fresco was buggy, but maintained - until the company decided they'd be better off developing for STBs. Ditto for Oregano (the only one of them that could do CSS, and even then it was piss poor and actually felt like a Windows app - same as Mozilla on Mac =) ). And WebsterXL was written in B
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  • That's almost exactly how I feel about Mozilla under KDE. Konqueror is nice, but it's just not quite *there* yet (though perlmonks is the only site that renders really badly under it - use.perl looks fine).


