h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

nice idea but ...

...unlikely to happen

...but wouldn't it be great if Micro$oft's "standard" for the boundary between the renderer and the UI was adopted by the industry, so development houses were free to concentrate on replacing one ot the other, and users were free to mix-and-match as they saw fit... Wouldn't that *really* screw Micro$oft up...

What would *really* screw Micro$oft up would be if the media et all stopped labelling anything non M$ as "alternative"

Those browsers are looking good. I used to use neoplanet and that's now looking much better.

I havent tried it but the crazy browser looked a good free way of adding tabbed browsing to MSIE (but I still say Opera id the best tabbed browser available for the win platform).

Funny you should say that. I'm in crazy browser now, trying it out

*waits for full report...*

Notes that the final version of Netscape 7 is now out ...

The makers seem to have taken what they saw as the best parts of mozilla and NS7 and though lets attach that to IE/Explorer. Center mouse button or wheel to open link in new tab - that sort of thing. The look is as though inspired by a windows XP fan.

As for as the genere goes I think it's very good. It comes with a pre-madeb lacklist for popups and you can allow scripts or not on a tab by tab basis.

"Notes that the final version of Netscape 7 is now out ..."

really? what's the difference from the preview version?

not a lot - the final version is based on Mozilla 1.0.1

Release Notes @ http://wp.netscape.com/eng/mozilla/ns7/relnotes/7.html#prefs

I shall have a look. There's only one problem.

It's a sunny Friday afternoon here in NZ, about 3pm

*giggles*
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Some more Front Ends for the MS rendering engine ...

Expolrer2002 http://www.vncom.com/e2/features.htm
Muse-lite http://www.musecorp.com/index.php?option=displaypage&Itemid=66&op=page&SubMenu=
Ariadne http://www.open-sft.com/ariadne/
Vantage http://www.vantagebrowser.com/
Bingooo http://www.bingooo.com/

Now the thing is ... if MSIE is so good why are all these people trying to improve it

That said hers one that perhaps points to the future as Peet might like to see it, this front end will use either MSIE or Netscape(Mozilla) as its rendering engine...
Networker http://www.geocities.com/famelstudio/

I like explorer 2002. It has a nice feel.

I forgot. It captures pages in tabs

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re Netscape 7
http://www.net4nowt.com/comments/1030665112,60203,.shtml

Netscape 7 based on Mozilla 1.0.1? Oh dear, Mozilla 1.1 just came out. Poor them.

Tabs are cool. Galeon was the first widely-used browser to have them, I believe.

The middle mouse button thing is a UNIX tradition as far as I can tell - Netscape on UNIX has had that feature for as long as I can remember using it. It's extremely handy. Galeon extends it to middle-clicking on links stored on the toolbar to open them in a new tab or window depending on your preferences.

"Galeon was the first widely-used browser to have them, I believe."

Gently shoves a copy of Opera down MaW's throat