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remmers
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Browsers
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Feb 13 22:39 UTC 2007 |
The best-known web client is the browser. What browser or browsers do you
use? What are the reasons for your choices?
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cross
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response 1 of 32:
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Feb 14 06:04 UTC 2007 |
Firefox, Camino and Safari; Firefox on the Mac and my Linux desktop at work.
Camino and Safari on the Mac.
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other
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response 2 of 32:
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Feb 15 02:05 UTC 2007 |
I use Camino primarily, and Shiira for some things (as a second browser
with different settings). Once in a while I'll use Mozilla or Safari.
I keep a copy of MSIE just in case I have to do something really stupid.
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nharmon
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response 3 of 32:
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Feb 15 15:13 UTC 2007 |
My primary web browser is Mozilla Firefox. It is installed on my Linux
workstation, Windows laptop, and Powermac. However I use other browsers
to see how certain web pages will look in them.
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kingjon
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response 4 of 32:
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Feb 16 00:18 UTC 2007 |
Lynx and links2. For things that are inconsiderate enough to not work with
those, I use Konqueror or, if a site runs into its missing features, Firefox.
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twenex
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response 5 of 32:
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Feb 18 13:25 UTC 2007 |
Konqueror, or Firefox. If a site only works with IE, it's not worth bothering
with.
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cmcgee
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response 6 of 32:
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Feb 19 13:41 UTC 2007 |
Firefox. Cause all you smart Unix guys said so.
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remmers
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response 7 of 32:
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Mar 1 00:19 UTC 2007 |
Being a good citizen of AppleLand and an OS X user, my default web
browser is Safari!
Seriously, several different browsers do an excellent job of rendering
(Safari, Firefox, Camino, Opera), so that's not really the issue. I use
Safari because it's fast, standards-conforming (mostly), and for a
couple of other reasons that some folks might consider trivial but which
matter to me. For example, the zoom button (the green '+' button in the
upper left-hand corner of the window) does the right thing when you
click on it - which is NOT to go full-screen. There are some
annoyances, like the limited options in the GUI preferences menu (not
being able to select default link colors or opt for non-underlined
links), but there are ways around those.
I use Firefox with appropriate extensions when doing serious web
development. The "web developer" and "DOM inspector" add-ons are really
nice. And thanks to the Quicksilver program, when I'm viewing a page in
Safari, I can bring up the same page in Firefox using a simple keystroke
(option-cmd-O).
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easlern
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response 8 of 32:
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Mar 1 19:04 UTC 2007 |
I use Firefox, unless I'm on a crappy work computer, in which case I use IE
because it usually takes less RAM.
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rcurl
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response 9 of 32:
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Mar 2 04:24 UTC 2007 |
Re #7: I know Firefox has a "web developer". but I don't understand it. Can
it be used like the Netscape Composer, to create web pages without knowing
HTML?
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remmers
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response 10 of 32:
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Mar 2 15:05 UTC 2007 |
No, the Firefox web developer add-on is intended for a different audience,
people who are already web developers familiar with web publishing
technologies like HTML and CSS, or who want to learn more about those
technologies. It provides a toolbar interface for display and editing of
HTML and CSS, but to use it effectively, you have to have some familiarity
with those formats. For students, it provides a nice sandbox for
experimentation.
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