From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 21 4:39:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sand7.global.net.uk (sand7.global.net.uk [195.147.246.253]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AABE137B41F for ; Wed, 21 Nov 2001 04:39:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from adamantite.global.net.uk ([194.126.80.200] helo=globalnet.co.uk) by sand7.global.net.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1) id 166WgM-000187-00 for questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 21 Nov 2001 12:40:50 +0000 Message-ID: <3BFBA123.E3BBF104@globalnet.co.uk> Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 12:42:11 +0000 From: John Ekins Reply-To: jre@globalnet.co.uk X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en-GB, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: home pc use References: <15354.60877.44081.17515@guru.mired.org><019701c17224$013e6520$0a00000a@atkielski.com><15355.2770.644343.846234@guru.mired.org><01e201c17234$24bc2360$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <15355.6508.841314.798412@guru.mired.org> <005001c17288$c17d0800$0a00000a@atkielski.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Anthony Atkielski wrote: > That was Netscape's problem, not Microsoft's. I stopped supporting Netscape 4.x > over a year ago because the browser has so many bugs that it at least doubles > development time for any page or site, and because virtually no one is using > Netscape browsers today, anyway (less than 2% of visitors to my site). In order > to support Netscape 4.x, you have to write two versions of every page: one for > Netscape, and one for all the other browsers in the world that adhere to W3C > standards. Either that, or you have to create pages so lame that people fall > asleep reading them. I voted to just drop Netscape support, and write for all > the other browsers. The poor CSS support was one of the worst problems with > that version of Netscape. Hold on a second. If you "stopped supporting Netscape 4.x over a year ago" why is it in your list of installed software?? And if you "voted to just drop Netscape support" why do you have Netscape installed at all?? John. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message