[WEB4LIB] RE: Netscape link problems...

[Dorothy Day]

On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Thomas Dowling wrote:

> From: "Toni Walder" <walderan at oplin.lib.oh.us>
> >
> > Some of us just DON'T like IE -- I admit to being initially opposed to
> > it because I resented Microsoft shoving it down our throats. But good
> > little librarian that I am, I eventually loaded it and tried it. I just
> > don't think it has the functionality Netscape has.
> 
> I'm absolutely not inviting a flamewar about who's got the better browser
> (nobody meets my expectations until they handle <LINK> correctly), but
> what Netscape functionality are you focusing on that isn't available in
> IE?


Bookmarks. Netscape's single bookmark.htm (300k stores thousands) is
easily transportable, while IE consumes thousands of files ("links") &
folders just to keep track of the same bookmarks--putting that on a
floppy or uploading it is agonizing.

Organizing/editing Netscape's bookmarks seems much easier to me, but
that may just be personal preference. However, ease of backup and reuse
of bookmarks is a simple matter of numbers (files and bytes).


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Dorothy Day
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Indiana University
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