On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 23:41, Matt Parker wrote:
IE's interface/features haven't changed since 1995 and version 4.
That's a little bit inconsistent. Windows 95 came with MSIE 2, for example. The feature set has changed significantly, while trying to keep the user interface similar.
IE on Linux is fine, but this Linux user wouldn't use it as his browser of choice...
Given the hundreds of Gecko based browser wrappers, if the MSIE engine were available on Linux as it is Windows, I'm sure there'd be loads of wrappers for it, which provide the features people want, like tabbed browsing.
however, I do make sure that all my web-facing code works in IE as well as Safari, Mozilla, Konqueror, Opera, and Netscape (not 4 though). It's really not that hard once you know the little quirks of all the browsers and their various bugs.
I've found it just too difficult getting even simple stuff to render in a satisfying way in Safari/Konq, so I gave up.