Subject: Re: [RFC] VM: I have a dream...
From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
To: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
Cc: Bernd Petrovitsch <bernd@firmix.at>,
       Horst von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>,
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On Wed, 2006-01-25 at 15:05 +0000, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> Bernd Petrovitsch wrote:
> > ACK. X, evolution and Mozilla family (to name standard apps) are the
> > exceptions to this rule.
> 
> Mozilla / Firefox / Opera in particular.  300MB is not funny on a
> laptop which cannot be expanded beyond 192MB.  Are there any usable
> graphical _small_ web browsers around?  Usable meaning actually works
> on real web sites with fancy features.

"Small" and "fancy features" are not compatible.

That's the problem with the term "usable" - to developers it means
"supports the basic core functionality of a web browser" while to users
it means "supports every bell and whistle that I get on Windows".

Lee

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