[Ti] [OT] Microsoft to quit web browsers for Mac

[Jesse Girard]

Hi Sherman:

Why would you want to use a web browser for ftp? It's such a restrictive 
way to do it. If you need non-anonymous (user/password-type) ftp you have 
to struggle to create a URL with your user name and password. Then you have 
issues with where the browser places your downloaded file, etc. Also I 
don't think you can upload using any browser I've ever tried for Windows, 
MacOS, or Linux environments.

There are some nice ftp clients for OS X. I seem to remember "Transmit" is 
a good one. (Sorry, my TiBook is off for the moment so I can't check).

BTW, I agree that command-line ftp works perfectly in Terminal. If you're 
used to command-line (that's all we had when I started with UNIX) it's the 
same rock-solid protocol it's always been. UNIX rules, man....

Meanwhile, since we're off-topic anyway, when will Apple (or someone) 
release a port of OS X to any other UNIX-capable hardware platform(s)? It 
seems kind of ridiculous that hasn't happened yet, considering how *NIX 
people like to play with their toys.

Jess Girard

At 01:18 PM 06/17/2003 -0700, Sherman Gregory wrote:

>I am not sure if I have tied with he latest beta, but as far as I could 
>tell, Safari does not do ftp.  Whenever I would click on a link to an ftp 
>address, IE would launch to do the download.  This was strange, and bugged 
>me.   I could not figure out how to stop it. Safari was set as my default 
>browser.
>
>So, a couple of months or so I deleted IE completely from my desktop 
>system.  Now the finder is used for ftp downloads.  I guess I don't miss 
>IE too much.