[WEB4LIB] Re: IE 5.0

[Jay Frantz]

About this latest MS toy: I still don't like it as much as Netscape
because it doesn't offer a print preview option. It is quite fast as they
predicted it would be. ...Still like my Netscape...

JHF

On Fri, 19 Mar 1999, Dan Lester wrote:

> At 03:54 PM 3/19/99 -0800, Dan Lester wrote:
> >Well, I too have the one from TUCOWS (which naturally displays their name
> >in the title bar unless you go to registry to edit it out).   And there is
> >NOT an entry under that you describe.  The only toolbars are Standard
> >Buttons, Address Bar, and Links.  NO radio.
> 
> Well, I thought I'd answer my own message now that I've done a bit more 
> looking.  Indeed the tucows.com IE5 is available, and is about 25 mb.   You 
> can get one purportedly WITH the radio from download.com that is 17mb.  As 
> noted in an earlier msg the tucows.com version also excludes help files, 
> and they weren't available when I wanted them.
> 
> BUT if you want the whole thing, all the bells and whistles it appears to 
> be 67.5mb, and is available from MS if you can ever get a connection, and 
> from ZDNet, and probably other places.   In this case you don't "get what 
> you pay for", but you "get what you wait for".  I'll bet there are other 
> "versions" out there too, many of them with "co-branding".  I have the 
> ZDNet version downloading now, with plenty of basketball to watch and long 
> range plans to read.
> 
> I know that for library public workstations I don't want to put up any that 
> are  branded or otherwise changed.
> 
> cheers
> 
> dan
> 
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