From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 21 4:53:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sand2.global.net.uk (sand2.global.net.uk [195.147.246.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DBFD37B405 for ; Wed, 21 Nov 2001 04:53:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from adamantite.global.net.uk ([194.126.80.200] helo=globalnet.co.uk) by sand2.global.net.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 166Wsw-0001LP-00 for questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 21 Nov 2001 12:53:50 +0000 Message-ID: <3BFBA47C.5691D8D0@globalnet.co.uk> Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 12:56:28 +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> <3BFBA123.E3BBF104@globalnet.co.uk> <007601c1728a$2c67fbb0$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: > > John writes: > > > If you "stopped supporting Netscape 4.x over a > > year ago" why is it in your list of installed > > software?? > > I've never deinstalled it, because I might need it at some time in the future. Does that go for other software in your list too? > > And if you "voted to just drop Netscape support" > > why do you have Netscape installed at all?? > > I create Web sites for other people besides myself, and some of them remain > misguided enough to insist on Netscape support specifically, instead of just > support for any browser that observes the standards. The 6.x version of > Netscape is much more standards compliant, but sometimes you have to verify that > something works, as a client who uses nothing but Netscape will assume that > anything that displays incorrectly on Netscape has a problem, and not the other > way around. So you are working around the problem for them. In your own words "Incompatible | conflicting != broken", or does that only hold for hardware? Why then aren't you willing to work around the problems you are having rather than just complaining about FreeBSD/KDE/whatever? I really would like to see this thread completely finished so that this list can get back to what it used to be used for. I never used to find every post useful, but it was never tedious. John. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message