On Sun, 26 Oct 2008 02:09:40 -0000, Francis G. Loch wrote:
> The Amiga really needs to play catch up in these areas so that things
> like surfing the web is as a general user would expect.
The thing is that by the time they have caught up one step, the other
browsers have taken three more.
> I doubt that
> the general user would need most of the up-to-the-minute bells and
> whistles that Microsoft or whoever add to their browsers.
Not all of them, many of which aren't needed by anyone outside of
Redmond, But some of them are required to use some popular sites.
Konqueror has hundreds of times the development of all Amiga projects
combined, possibly thousands, but it still has not caught
up enough to work completely on some sites, like Facebook.
--
Neil Bothwick
Rainbows are just to look at, not to really understand.
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