Mary writes: >At 1:39 PM -0400 8/9/02, java mad bernini wrote: >some helpful stuff about browsers, but I take exception to a coupla things: > >>Use whatever you want, as long as you stop using Netscape 4. It's a >>browser that was top of the line in what, '98? It's old, slow, has >>limited functionality and flakes out on >>your machine... > >AFAIK, a lot of savvy users continue to use Netscape 4.7.8 and 9 and >stay away from the 6 versions.
I've recently made some changes to the Low End Mac home page and the header used on all the pages. It's abominable what Netscape 4.0.8 and 4.7.9 to my nice design. :-( Problem is, if you use a graphic as a background image for a table, Netscape 4.x isn't very clever and uses the graphic as a background for each individual cell in that table. It works, and it actually looks kinda nice, but it's *not* the look I was after. Compared to the way IE, iCab, Mozilla, OmniWeb, and even Opera display the home page, it's just wrong. I also hate the way Netscape loads and displays a page, then blanks the screen and displays it all over again. Another complaint: when you print a page in Netscape, it refuses to use what's on the screen or in the cache and insists on loading the page afresh from the Internet. That's why I left Netscape for IE 4.5 years ago. Today I switch between IE 5.1 and the latest version of iCab. I only launch Netscape to see how bad things look and decide if I need to make any tweaks to keep things from really looking like crap. -- Dan Knight, president, Cobweb Publishing, Inc. <http://cobwebpublishing.com> <http://lowendmac.com> <http://digital-views.com> <http://digigraphica.com> <http://lowendpc.com> <http://reformed.net> Unix for stability. Macs for productivity. Windows for solitaire. In other words, Mac OS X for pretty much everything. -- The iMac List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | - Epson Stylus Color 580 Printers - new at $69 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> iMac List info: <http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/imac-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
