On Thu, 06 Feb 2003 17:09:00 -0800, Mike Macgirvin wrote: > The old > Netscape clients had an otherwise disabled menu button for managing mail > account or somesuch. If it had a URL, it would enable that item.
No, that is not how it worked. It kept the menu button enabled. When the user tried to use that button, it issued an error message claiming that the server was defective, and that the user needed to contact the server administrator. As a consequence, I received many many bug reports. I was not happy. That one little thing inflicted a lot of trouble on me. The argument about "we had a business need...couldn't otherwise be accomplished...in a more standards compliant fashion" is exactly the sort of thing which must be rigorously opposed whenever it pops up.
