An IE-Based Tabbed Browser from China 163
wannabgeek writes "CNET reports that a new browser, Maxthon is gaining wide popularity in China. 14 percent of Chinese websurfers have used it ... Part of the reason, it has features that help in circumventing the Chinese government censors. CNET says it was shown at the Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas this year, and is slowly gaining foothold in Europe as well as the U.S."
CNET: all the news that's fit to subjugate (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:It's an addon and hardly new (Score:3, Insightful)
It's not too bad, except that it's pretty cluttered, and it's still MSIE.
Re:So what, it's windows only... (Score:5, Insightful)
You should be modded down as redundant anyway, because the title of the story begins "An IE-Based" [...] which makes it quite fucking clear that it's Windows-only, since IE/mac is gone, gone, gone.
If linux users want to run it, they can do it in vmware on a pirated copy of windows like everyone else.*
*Actually, I only run Windows 98 in my vmware right now, and I actually have a license for it... but this is a statistical anomaly.
Re:So what, it's windows only... (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:So what, it's windows only... (Score:1, Insightful)
We've gone from RTFArticle to RTFSummary and finally we need RTFTitle.
It's based on Internet Explorer. Which is part of Windows. And, therefore, no, there is no Linux port as there is no Linux port of Internet Explorer.
RTFT.
Re:Maxthon, Not New (Score:3, Insightful)
Mod parent oxymoronic.
And no, I'm not trolling. Most of IE's problems are due to its engine.
Re:Fun With Statistics (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Ok guys, get over it. (Score:1, Insightful)
You are all falling over yourselves comically to point out the fact that sombody said "shinese".
I don't think anybody cares that somebody who probably doesn't speak English as their native language mixed up "sh" and "ch".
I think the real problem people have is that somebody who does speak English as their native language, and who is paid to correct errors like these, is seemingly entirely incompetent, either in doing his job, or in spotting glaringly obvious errors in his native language. Is he lazy or is he stupid?
Re:Maxthon, Not New (Score:5, Insightful)
And no, I'm not trolling. Most of IE's problems are due to its engine.
While it's true that third-party browsers using Trident are vulnerable to the same security flaws as IE (and, of course, share the same CSS and other rendering bugs), there are a number of flaws in IE that are corrected by third-party browsers.
Because third-party browsers don't support IE toolbars, they aren't as affected by spyware. Third-party browsers generally have search boxes, tabs, and other features that IE lack.
And, quite frankly, saying that IE "sucks" ignores the reality of the situation.
From a developer's perspective, IE "sucks" because it means that I have to bend over backwards to support IE's broken CSS implementation (although, to be honest, the CSS standard sucks in many ways anyway). But even if IE stopped "sucking" in this regard tomorrow, it wouldn't make a bit of difference to me - as a user, IE's crappy CSS support doesn't really affect me (because developers work around it), and as a developer, I'm still going to have to develop for IE6 because it will represent a significant portion of my users for years to come.
But from a user's perspective, IE isn't really that bad. From a security perspective, it's subpar, but IE has greatly improved in that regard since SP2. Users neither know nor care whether their browser has decent CSS2 support.
Re:A new browser? (Score:3, Insightful)
And the copyright notice on the website is from 1999, which sounds about right to me.
CNET has been smoking something good in this case.
Proxy (Score:2, Insightful)