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Originally Posted by pl001
You discredit IE for desktop features as you compare it to iPad browsers.
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Not at all; you haven't read my posts carefully. I say Internet Explorer is a lousy, crude browser because it lacks functionality I consider to be crucial, such as the ability to customise keyboard shortcuts -- which is a feature offered by Opera, another desktop browser.
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Originally Posted by pl001
You dismiss all that Microsoft has put together
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Not at all; another misreading of yours.
There are quite a few things for which I praise Microsoft; they just haven't been the subject of discussion in this thread. I said Microsoft had a reputation for producing buggy software, and that's true, unfortunately.
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Originally Posted by pl001
The fact is they have perhaps the most complete and capable portfolio of anybody right now.
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That is anything
but a "fact".
It's simply your opinion, but one that I find to be untenable. I find Windows 8 devices unusable for serious purposes at this point due to the lack of apps, so that Microsoft's offerings cannot be called "the most capable". It's really a horrendous exaggeration to say that; MS marketing department speak, if you will.
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Originally Posted by pl001
Whether you want to admit it or not, they have a lot of great products out right now.
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Sorry, I'm not aware of any. Your and my definitions of "great products" clearly differ, but that's fine.
The last great MS product, I'd say, is Windows 7.
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Originally Posted by eschwartz
never used Opera, though I hear it has many good features
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The trouble is, the new Opera version is supposed to share Chrome's rendering engine, and therefore lose many of its previous features. I hope that's not true. I'm sticking with classic Opera.
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Originally Posted by eschwartz
the strength of all browser apps rests on the power of Apple's Webkit.
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Unfortunately, Apple's WebKit is buggy as well, which has consequences for iOS e-readers relying on WebKit's rendering engine. As an illustration of a WebKit deficiency, take the inability to easily highlight (select) words on a webpage across paragraph boundaries... there is this "paragraph snapping" that selects the entire paragraph instead, even if that was not your intention. No such problems with selecting/highlighting text on Android...