26th June 2012, 9:58 PM
I know Seamonkey has a lot of extra tools unrelated to browsing like development and such, but what of the browser itself? What features does it have for browsing that make it stand out from Firefox in your view?
The death of IE6 will be a great moment when that last grandmother running Windows ME finally updates her computer, and it was a bad call for MS to decide to just not even bother supporting XP with IE9 (I think it would have been better to wait a few versions for that, at least until official MS support for the OS ends a couple years from now). However, the latest version of IE is actually a truly competitive browser. They actually have their act together with IE9 and the upcoming IE10. Sure, their release cycle is slower than the competition, but they've got enterprise to think about so stability and compatibility are very important. At least now that compatibility is entirely standards based instead of some esoteric rendering quirks of their specific interpretation of how HTML should function.
The death of IE6 will be a great moment when that last grandmother running Windows ME finally updates her computer, and it was a bad call for MS to decide to just not even bother supporting XP with IE9 (I think it would have been better to wait a few versions for that, at least until official MS support for the OS ends a couple years from now). However, the latest version of IE is actually a truly competitive browser. They actually have their act together with IE9 and the upcoming IE10. Sure, their release cycle is slower than the competition, but they've got enterprise to think about so stability and compatibility are very important. At least now that compatibility is entirely standards based instead of some esoteric rendering quirks of their specific interpretation of how HTML should function.
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