Barry wrote:
OTOH, I've used Linux and OSX, and before that NeXT, Solaris and various Unixes for (unfortunately, way :) longer than there's been a web, and except for the Windows programming I do at work, haven't ever used IE for any substantial amount of time.
I've been using Unix and the Internet since the summer of 1984, and a Macintosh Fanatic since December of 1983 (when I saw a prototype, before the official unveiling during the SuperBowl commercial). I've never voluntarily used IE, except when I'm at my parents house and I need to do something on the web with her computer -- which is almost never, since I always take my laptop with me.
I would love to have a
self-discoverable
interface, or an interface that can be used to selectively reveal just the parts you're interested.
I just read the intro to a Slashdot article at http://slashdot.org/articles/06/07/06/1654242.shtml, which quoted the following section:
| Dollar for dollar, network-based computers are faster. Unless you're playing Grand Theft | Auto or watching HDTV, your network isn't the slowest part of your setup. It's the | consumer-grade Pentium and disk drive on your Dell, and the wimpy home data bus | that connects them. Home computers are marketed with slogans like "Ultimate | Performance," but the truth is they're engineered to run cool, quiet, and slow compared | to commercial servers.
I'm not 100% certain the original author being quoted by Slashdot is right, but at the very least I think you have to give some serious consideration to what the author is saying.
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