A lot of opinions.

[Myrddin Emrys]

(Rant Warning!)

I'm sorry if everyone is over saying something about Safari but I think 
that this list its the perfect place. Correct me if I am wrong but this 
list is to pass on experiences with OmniWeb, and the best way to do 
that is with a point of reference, by including experiences with other 
browsers.

The Omni team does not have the resources of Apple or Microsoft, and 
they only have the user to support and thank with the best product that 
they can and will be done with limited resources, in this case a 
quasi-free web browser.

It's funny, I was going to make NeXT my choice of computer many moons 
ago, just before things went sour. I had made the choice do to mainly 
two things, WordPerfect and Omni products. My major point is 
productivity, I like to get the job properly done. Omni has always been 
able to provide this without the hype of large companies; however, 
Apple now getting back to it's Apple II roots in relation to software 
with there use and listening to what the user wants and sees.

This whole browser mess is because of too many 'standards'. Personally, 
I used OmniWeb from day one with System X, but now I use Safari. Why? 
Chimera is still to flaky on my system, IE gives me a rash, Mozilla 
gives me more than I want or need, and OmniWeb seems slower on my 
machine over time and less compliant to the standards than I would like.

(Rant over)

I don't see a problem with the Omni team using khtml and charging for 
OmniWeb. Correct me if I am wrong, khtml is open source but the code 
that makes or brakes OmniWeb is the user experience or the interfacing 
code which is not open source.

It's a huge thing writing a graphics engine with so few resources, my 
hat goes off to the team, and I'm impatiently waiting for the results. 
I know I will be impressed with results.

I don't think Safari is a browser killer, as with all it's hoopla, it 
is still new and as with all free iApps it is IMHO just an 
advertisement of how easy it is to write a program in System X using 
it's standard frameworks.


John