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.