[WEB4LIB] Re: Browsers

[Mary (Mary Anthes)]

Another good thing about Netscape is that they offer the 'stand-alone'
browser with no Mail or News or HTML editing components.  With Internet
Explorer becoming so closely integrated with the operating system and
programs like MS Office, it's not easy to set up a public PC that limits
access to the workstation, network, etc. and protect privacy of the user
(e.g auto-completion, etc.)   Even with the IE Admin Kit, it takes alot of
time to find all these options and decide how to handle them.

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Mary Anthes
Network Systems Administrator
Kansas City Public Library 
Kansas City, MO 64106
mary at kclibrary.org





> -----Original Message-----
> From: morganj at iupui.edu [mailto:morganj at iupui.edu]
> Sent: Friday, June 04, 1999 11:32 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: [WEB4LIB] Re: Browsers
> 
> 
> In addition to the factors mentioned below, I'd add that 
> Microsoft's java
> support seems less than enthusiastic, so Netscape might work 
> better for
> some sites.  Also both IE and Netscape have become very large 
> programs, so
> that we sometimes use Opera where speed is needed, and where hardware
> resources are limited.
> 
> Jim Morgan
> morganj at iupui.edu
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, 4 Jun 1999, Richard L. Goerwitz wrote:
> 
> > David Merchant wrote:
> > > 
> > > At 07:04 AM 6/4/99 -0700, Peter Kendal wrote:
> > > >Why do so many academic institutions use Netscape instead of IE?
> > > >And why was this the case when Netscape had to be paid for?
> > > 
> > > Because back when Netscape had to be paid for, it was 
> free for educational
> > > institutions.  It came out before IE as well and 
> educational institutions
> > > was were the web was most used (at first).  This legacy 
> means that NN is
> > > used more often at institutions than IE but that is changing.
> > 
> > It's more than that (at least in my limited experience).
> > 
> > I remember the mood turning among some of my technical 
> acquaintances when
> > Microsoft started changing its licensing policies for its 
> stock software
> > (Word, etc.).  People started realizing how vulnerable a 
> position they
> > had put themselves in, relying so heavily on Microsoft.  A 
> lot of people
> > are still Macophiles, too, and, rather than blame Apple for 
> turning the
> > whole world off by its stance on intellectual property, 
> just blindly vent
> > at Microsoft, and refuse to use IE.
> > 
> > There's also the Linux factor.  Linux is coming more to the 
> fore.  Since
> > IE won't run under Linux (Microsoft really just wishes that 
> Linux would
> > go away), such institutions have little reason to go with 
> IE (at least
> > exclusively).
> > 
> > Smaller universities that lack technical capability, and 
> tend to cut the
> > sorts of one-vendor deals that we see in industry, do seem 
> to be tending
> > more towards IE these days.
> > 
> > Does anyone have any hard stats on browser usage in academia?
> > 
> > -- 
> > 
> > Richard Goerwitz
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> 57 56 0D 38 A0
> > For more info (mail, phone, fax no.):  finger 
> richard at goon.stg.brown.edu
> > 
>