Mozilla

[Alex Snow]

It's open source.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Octavian Rasnita" <orasnita at home.ro>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Saturday, June 15, 2002 12:39 AM
Subject: Re: Mozilla


> What is the advantage of Mozilla over Internet Explorer?
>
> Teddy,
> orasnita at home.ro
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Whitley GS11 Cecil H" <WhitleyCH at cherrypoint.usmc.mil>
> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Friday, June 14, 2002 4:51 PM
> Subject: Mozilla
>
>
> > Hello,
> > I hesitate to even mention this because I don't want to start another
> > battle.  However, I feel that there is a segment of this community that
> this
> > effects and who will be interested.  Yesterday in my wanderings (I was
> > checking out the latest status of Gnome) I ran across some very
> interesting
> > information.  Mozilla currently supports MSAA on the Windows platform.
> > Since the VP of development for Freedom Scientific had testified in
April
> > that Netscape does not support accessability I found it curious to say
the
> > least that Netscape uses Mozilla's technology in it's latest browser and
> > therefore supports both MSAA and DOM.
> >
> > Okay, what's my point?  Simply this, I wrote
> > suggestions at freedomscientific.com and requested that they support
Mozilla
> on
> > the Windows platform given that the Mozilla developers are suporting
> > accessability in their product.  I indicated that I felt their company
> > should suport Mozilla at least as well as they suport Internet Explorer
> > given that it provides more choice for the visually impaired community.
I
> > know that some of the users on this list would benefit from experience
> with
> > Mozilla on windows so that they are "up to speed" on it once it is
> available
> > under Gnome.  So with that said, I would like to request that if you are
a
> > jaws user (or any other windows screen reader for that matter) that you
> let
> > your voice be heard by your respective vendor.
> >
> > I realize that lynx and links won't go away simply because a GUI is
> > available, however much of the point of Mozilla is it's ability to be
> > imbedded within apps.  Feedback from the community as a whole would be
> > benificial to insure that the product is as accessable as possible for
> those
> > who will "have" to use it.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Cecil
> >
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