- From: Joe English <jenglish@crl.com>
- Date: Sat, 25 Mar 1995 21:51:05 -0800
- To: Multiple recipients of list <www-talk@www10.w3.org>
- Cc: swepett@kajen.malmo.se
Svante Pettersson <swepett@kajen.malmo.se> wrote: > My question is: Why does people use Mosaic when Netscape is better and > can be obtained free all over the net? I still use Mosaic because I find it far less eyestrain-inducing than Netscape. The main reason for this is that Mosaic is more configurable, and I've set it up to use fonts and background colors that I like. (It's still far from perfect -- Arena's layout is infinitely better -- but at least I'm not stuck with Netscape's black-on-dark-grey all-Times-Roman text with way too much vertical whitespace.) So even though Netscape is better for casual surfing, if I'm going to spend any time actually reading and not just browsing, I usually stick with Mosaic. Another advantage is that Mosaic *doesn't* support certain extensions -- primarily background images, inline font-size changes, and gratuitous centering -- that are badly overused by the half-competent wanna-be graphic designers who are beginning to overrun the Web. (Not that these features are bad in and of themselves, just that they are more often than not badly used. Some pages are so overdone that they are unreadable under anything but Lynx, and then you have to deal with the [IMAGE] [IMAGE] [IMAGE] effect.) > Do you think that I should limit my layout so that mosaic-users can enjoy > my pages as well? That's totally up to you. I used to believe that layout should be the browsers' job and that authors should concentrate on content and organization. The Web seems to be evolving in a much different direction, though. --Joe English jenglish@crl.com
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