[lbo-talk] JDK runs on FreeBSD!!!

John Kozak j_k_ at xylema.org
Sat Oct 23 08:59:15 PDT 2004


ravi writes: [...]

> however: (a) if you use IE on mac, you are probably

> still at some risk, (b) if you are using safari, afaik, its based on

> KHTML, which IMHO while albeit inferior to Gecko (mozilla's rendering

> engine), is open source. gecko and mozilla are way more HTML/CSS

> compliant and feature rich. all these other browsers/engines are the

> naders of the world ;-) ;-).

Safari is indeed based on KHTML, and Apple have been doing the right thing about feeding their improvements back in (started going in with KDE 3.2). It shouldn't be a hard sell to get lefties to avoid IE, which is part of a rather transparent MS strategy to assume the role of corporate gatekeeper to what should become one of the world's key public spaces.

John



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