On Saturday, July 26, 2003, at 08:40 AM, Ka-Ping Yee wrote:
On Sat, 26 Jul 2003, scorpiosunmoon wrote:
Am I missing something? Is there a built in browser detect? Or something along those lines??? I haven't checked them all but many of these themes look pretty funky in Netscape 4.
Netscape 4 is (i'm afraid i cannot put it more delicately) a piece of
junk when it comes to CSS. It blatantly ignores the standard, it's full
of bugs, and its release did untold damage to the Web by delaying the
adoption of CSS for many years.
Probably tens of thousands of person-hours of work have been wasted all over the world because of the incompetence of the Netscape programmers.
For users who still suffer with Netscape 4, the best solution is likely for some kind soul who still runs NN 4 (i don't have it any more) to develop a theme that specifically works around its problems. We may be able to throw in a user-agent check that chooses a different default theme when the user is running NN 4.
-- ?!ng
Honestly I don't think it's worth the effort to worry about NN4 given the *extremely* low usage it has now. With everything else we have in front of us this is just one more thing to worry about, and IMHO it's flat-out not worth it.
Just my 2 cents on the matter, Matt
