Re: Why you should dump IE.
 

What other browsers are there?

Re: Why you should dump IE.
 

Thats all of them, all browsers have flaws but IE is the worst also as its the market leader people will target that

Re: Why you should dump IE.
 

:Yikes:

I just ran the vulnerability checker on that website, illustrating how a malicious site can 'inject' content into the frameset of another page already open on your machine.

How the blazes does it do that?!?!

Re: Why you should dump IE.
 

DOnt worry Safari 1.3 is out soon for mac users! Also people who have the developers release have reported that it is 300% faster in some case at loading pages. Hopefully gamespot.com will improve!

Re: Why you should dump IE.
 

Doubtless for osx 10.3 only. Money-grubbing swines. :mad:

Re: Why you should dump IE.
 

why dont you get 10.3 its really good :)

Re: Why you should dump IE.
 

Young son + house move this year = computer low priority in our house :(

I will buy it eventually, but even if I had the money, I object to being coerced into paying £100 for a new OS less than 12 months after paying £100 for the last one.

I ought to be able to justify it to mrs towny though, I'm reliably informed that it actually improves the performance of old G3-450s like my indigo iMac.

Anyway, that's a little :notopic: :)

Re: Why you should dump IE.
 

scary

Re: Why you should dump IE.
 

Have a look at the code behind the link in Step 2...

Re: Why you should dump IE.
 

well it might as well be greek, I don't know HTML. :) Give me a clue, what's it say?

Re: Why you should dump IE.
 

Ah - sorry. Specifies the name of the frame to open the link in. The scary bit is that IE just does it - across sites.

Re: Why you should dump IE.
 

That plus the fact that Tiger is out soon(ish).

Re: Why you should dump IE.
 

Yes, which poses a potential problem ... will 10.4 offer further performance improvements for older machines or have we reached a point where the newest version of the OS is going to be just too much for them? Should I buy 10.3 while I can, or wait and risk finding out that 10.4 requires a G4, thereby leaving me stuck with 10.2.8 forever with no way of getting a 10.3 CD?

Still OT, sorry :erm:

Re: Why you should dump IE.
 

10.4 will require a hefty system. I G4 1GHZ is advisable otherwise it doesn't work to its very best. Although this is not 100% certain yet

I would get 10.3 as i have heard it gives a nice speed boost to older system and then leave it a while, you can always get tiger a few months after its out

Re: Why you should dump IE.
 

So would I. I am running 10.3 on a 500MHz iBook, and it runs quite well (much better than 10.2.8).

Re: Why you should dump IE.
 

when you lot going to get a proper pc then ;)

Re: Why you should dump IE.
 

I have. 2Ghz Athlon with 768Meg ram running XP Pro. I borrow the iBook from work.

Re: Why you should dump IE.
 

there is hope then

Re: Why you should dump IE.
 

Don't knock the Mac. It has faults (like the PC) but there is a lot the Mac does that is better than the PC. I like both. If a Mac does what I want better than a PC, I'll use a Mac. If the PC does what I want better than a Mac, I'll use a PC.

Re: Why you should dump IE.
 

Always someone isnt there :D

tried that link posted earlier in thread, sheesh thats scary stuff, how long untill thats going to be corrected.

Re: Why you should dump IE.
 

http://www.geekpatrol.ca/archives/20...pantherand.php


I will try my best to make sense of this



10.4 is faster in all areas of testing expect User interface (which is actually what makes a difference as a slow UI makes the whole thing look slow) now these would APPEAR to mean that you should wait for 10.4. But I have heard that tiger needs faster computers (the test computer was a g5) so I would recommend getting 10.3 now! to be safe (and to experance a speed boost and a newer better OS) and then if you REALLY need 10.4 you can still get it.

Summary

1. 10.3 is (apparently) faster than 10.2 on slow macs and gives them a speed boost although i cannot confirm this
2. 10.4 is faster than tiger but only only fast macs so far
3. 10.4 out in 2005

Re: Why you should dump IE.
 

thanks for all your work! Other friends who have gone from 10.2 to 10.3 have said that there is an improvement for slower machines, so I think we can take that as fact. I'm interested in what you're saying about 10.4 - that it's just the UI that'll slow it down - because of course there's always the option of switching animated effects off. That would still be a pity because I quite like the genie animation for minimizing/maximizing windows! I think I will get 10.3 before the end of the year and then wait for other people to give their feedback on 10.4 before I decide whether to risk it. :)

Re: Why you should dump IE.
 

Well the UI is important to me as if thats slow it gives the whole impression that the computer is slow. I know you can scale back but i hate doing that you need to see if it is worth getting 10.4 and scaling back. Here is the stuff in tiger: http://www.apple.com/uk/macosx/tiger/

If i was you i would get 10.3 then let that be that until your next mac

Re: Why you should dump IE.
 

There's a new extension for autofill now. I don't know if it's any good though.

Re: Why you should dump IE.
 

I find the BBCode extension handy.
Firefox: http://update.mozilla.org/extensions...=Miscellaneous
Mozilla: http://update.mozilla.org/extensions...=Miscellaneous

Re: Why you should dump IE.
 

Thanks. Added it to my extensive Favorites. If I try Firefox again in the future I'll download it.

Interesting that there's an RFC for the naming of form fields in e-commerce - http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3106.txt I didn't know that. Made a note to read up. I dunno - pace of change is scary.