IE is currently the most popular browser and this is why its security flaws are targetted by these malicious programs. If Netscape increases in popularity, they will target Netscape too, with exactly the same results.

Well, no. Netscape does have its bugs, but it's not the security hole IE is. Listen to what scourge says: IE is part of the OS. Its "popularity" has very little to do with its quality and very much with the fact that it comes with Windows. Read what Tim Bray has to say. And use a better browser.

It has nothing to do with IE being unsecure and Netscape being in any way better (Netscape is more bugged than IE for rendering HTML).

Well, no. Even Netscape 4, which was worth bugger all when it came to CSS, was mainly intolerant of sloppy HTML. The current Netscape, 7.1, is better than IE in rendering both CSS and HTML. Still: Opera or Firefox. They, in addition, have pop-up control, which IE will have only in Service Pack 2.

Opera is also going to the wrong direction in my opinion.

Well, I installed 7.50 and have to say that I don't exactly disagree. (Why the hell System Tray?!) But you can participate in the shaping of future versions and it's still better browser overall. So I'll keep it.

The only thing that Java and JavaScript have in common is that the actual code looks similar on a superficial level, and their names are frustratingly, maddeningly similar.

Oh, that's marketing. Java was hot at the time and they decided to give the name JavaScript to the thingy. Now it officially goes under the name of ECMAScript. :-)

Message edited on: 06/28/2004 00:14

-- erlik