tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21367055.post114169974824979851..comments2023-11-05T05:15:29.383-05:00Comments on graphicallyspeaking: Firefox v. IE: an AOL View, pt 3Sree Kotayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01637645734999157782noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21367055.post-1142468749565986702006-03-15T19:25:00.000-05:002006-03-15T19:25:00.000-05:00I appreciate your passion too and for posting your...I appreciate your passion too and for posting your thoughts, good stuff. <BR/><BR/>It's clear we disagree on some things and that's fine. Just noticed AOL Explorer 1.5 beta and checking it out today, too. <BR/><BR/>I want to see AOL turn it around this year and it looks like you guys are moving in the right direction.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21367055.post-1141941148607083262006-03-09T16:52:00.000-05:002006-03-09T16:52:00.000-05:00rafael: I appreciate the comments and passion :)I...rafael: I appreciate the comments and passion :)<BR/><BR/>I was a little verbose in my ramblings, but I think you're kind of making <B><I>MY</I></B> point - I'm not sure that Firefox as a browsing engine lets us do much that IE doesn't. And it adds 4MB of download, comparable perf, and less compatibility?<BR/><BR/>As a product - yeah, Firefox is nice, but I believe AOL needs its own browser (different set of arguments as I said). We make an IE toolbar, and a <A HREF="http://beta.aol.com/projects.php?project=firefoxtoolbar" REL="nofollow">Firefox toolbar</A>. Wherever there are users, we'd like to have software and services.<BR/><BR/>As a developer, I kinda hope you kick some butt (and you are!), but I'm not sure, as I said, that its really a pain (the transition and butt-kicking) that I'd pass on to my customers.<BR/><BR/>fwiw, not everyone even in AOL agrees.Sree Kotayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01637645734999157782noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21367055.post-1141940840316111132006-03-09T16:47:00.000-05:002006-03-09T16:47:00.000-05:00Roopa: Thanks :) You should check out the 1.5 bet...Roopa: Thanks :) <BR/><BR/>You should check out <A HREF="http://beta.aol.com/projects.php?project=aolexplorer" REL="nofollow">the 1.5 beta</A> - we might win you over yet (though I recommend you turn off start-up tabs in preferences for perf reasons; that'll get fixed).<BR/><BR/>You're right though, we need to work on our extension program - that's coming in a big way.Sree Kotayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01637645734999157782noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21367055.post-1141895831339700562006-03-09T04:17:00.000-05:002006-03-09T04:17:00.000-05:00I'm a little disappointed. I was hoping for, we c...I'm a little disappointed. I was hoping for, we chose IE because it allowed us to do x, y, and z and Mozilla didn't allow us to do that. <BR/><BR/>We know compatibility is an issue, not so much in the US, but if you've bought a $2,000 iMac and can't access a site that's IE only, that kinda sucks. It's actually going the other way as well where some sites are optimized for Firefox/Safari/Opera because IE just doesn't have the underlying functionality. <BR/><BR/>If you build an AOL browser on top of Firefox with all that it can do, and *you* and the technical team came up with the features/exensions, not everyone in biz dev, not everyone in programming, not everyone in sales (not implying don't make money), it would be a very, very cool browser. <BR/><BR/>Throw down some cool AOL extensions for Firefox (e.g. not the AOL toolbar) and see what happens. Won't hurt much and can be done on the cheap. Get juberti in a room for 30 minutes. I don't think anyone's even come close to what could be possible with IM in a browser/web experience. <BR/><BR/>Also, I'd love to see a counter technical argument as to why you would build a browser on top of Firefox and what the advantages there would be. valeski? Someone else?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21367055.post-1141888995822815782006-03-09T02:23:00.000-05:002006-03-09T02:23:00.000-05:00"evangelism of firefox", as you rightly said is on..."evangelism of firefox", as you rightly said is one of the key components for its preference. IE is a better bet for the AOL browser, and maybe lots of AOL IE extensions for firefox like <A HREF="https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=1419&application=firefox" REL="nofollow">so</A> may help. Your post makes so much sense, I'm almost a convert :)0https://www.blogger.com/profile/09878039128854732932noreply@blogger.com