| From: | Zoltan Hunt |
| Date: | 18 Sep 2000 at 14:54:22 |
| Subject: | AMIOPEN: re: Escape |
I had a look at the Escape4 browser a while back (still use it for
compatability testing along with N6 PR2). My biggest complaint is that it
supports Netscape DOM-0 rather than the DOM 1 standard. I mean it seems to
have all the support there (DHTML, CCS1, Javascript 1.4, etc.) but you have
to program Netscape's way which doesn't give as much control over screen
elements compared to Mozilla or IE 5+. What I do like is that it works- I
like to think of it as Netscape 4.x without the bugs :)
Then again, I hear about companies coming out with new browsers for systems
like the Dreamcast using HTML 3.2 :)
Zoltan
-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Konrad <rkon@gmx.de>
To: open@amiga.com <open@amiga.com>
Date: Sunday, September 17, 2000 9:16 PM
Subject: Re: AMIOPEN: OT: Sega
>> The X-Box is so far away that it isn't worth comparing it to
>>systems that are out now. Maybe the Dolphin, but both Sega and
>>Sony have said that they will be at least one more generation
>>ahead when the X-Box launches. The other thing that
>>remains to be seen is if M$ can pull it off. All the specs I've
>>read about the X-Box so far make me think they don't understand the
>>console market at all.
>
>At the moment it looks like GameCube(Dolphin) will be faster than
>XBox, cause of it's memory/bus system (Amiga should have a look at
>this for their hardware references). And XBox is a 32bit system ;)
>but they actually manage that console users start to talk about MHz,
>like Windows users do it :(
>MSX was a looser and I think XBox will be one, too. Most probably a
>cool graphic chip but not the right hardware to get it to it's
>limits. And I don't know anybody who is interested in a PC - console
>mix.
>
>
>>> Their problem is, unlike Nintendo, they don't have anything to fall
>>> back on except making games. 3DO managed the transition, but
>>> almost didn't and lost most of their staff several times during the
>>> process.
>>>
>>
>> What else does Nintendo have to fall back on if they dropped out
>>of the hardware market?
>
>I don't know, but Sega still got it's arcade hardware.
>
>BTW, I just had a look at Espial's Escape browser, which can be
>downloaded at devicetop.com. Very cool, knows allmost all HTML tags,
>a lot of CSS and can even do some DHTML, allthough Netscape's layer
>tag is not the right way to do this...even Netscape tries to get away
>from this.
>But I'm very impressed, Netscape6 and IE5 can't do much more
>(somtimes less) and it supports more stuff than Opera does.
>
>--
>Regards
>Robert
>
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