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Friday’s new edition of Web

Sunday, September 2nd, 2001 at 4:48 PM Category: Meryl's Notes Blog No comments

Friday’s new edition of Web Review brings us WebReview.com: Meet Mozilla (and Netscape 6.1), an in depth look at the newest build of each. I downloaded 6.0 and promptly uninstalled it. It was buggy, slow, and troublesome. I spent more time dealing with the problems than I did surfing.

6.1 came out. First I wrote about it, but didn’t bother downloading it. Eventually, I gave it a shot and it’s been pretty good so far. The CSS problems of 4.7 disappear in 6.1. It crashes less (no more or less than IE) and loads faster than 6.0. But, is it too late for Netscape and its lizard to catch up with Big Bad IE? Unfortunately, most likely so. But hey, why not just use both of them like I do?

Bob gave me food for thought on my latest Webreference article regarding the lie vs. lay issue. He wrote:

“So, what about “Now I lay me down to sleep…” Now” is present tense, so I guess it should be “Now I lie me down to sleep….”

I had to think about this one. If it said “Now I lie down to sleep,” lie would absolutely be correct – here it is used as if the person is seperating himself from his body & thus putting (laying) himself to sleep. It’s sort of an allegory – as in the mind putting the body to sleep. If you were putting a child to sleep you would say I lay him down to sleep.

Think of it as a different way – not now I recline, but rather now I put my body down so it can recline – didn’t say this was necessarily right, but just a way of looking at the prayer to make the use of lay correct – another way to make sense is I am going to LIE down now – just can’t wait to LAY my head on the pillow (meaning I am going to PUT my head on a pillow & LIE down). If you didin’t have the object (head) you would just LIE on the pillow. well in the prayer it is using ME as an object – not a great constuction, but possible.

I’ll stop here while we ponder that one further.