Geoff wrote:

>Hi,
>
>This post is *not* a complaint.  I have nothing but admiration and
>gratitude for the developers of moz, galeon, and opera, all of which I
>use.  I am not a fluent programmer and I do not pretend to understand
>javascript. I would, however, be really grateful if someone could explain,
>in terms I have a chance of understanding, why it is that so many sites
>(especially commercial sites), can be viewed without problems in my clunky
>old Netscape 4.76, but throw up (in particular), javascript errors or
>otherwise fail to render properly in any of the more recent browsers I
>have mentioned?  I understand that opera has its own design and problems,
>but could not the core functionality of Netscape 4 have been carried over
>into moz?
>
>Regards,
>
>Geoff
>
Not if the core functionality of Netscape 4 was the *reason* these pages 
choke =]  Standards compliance is why Moz doesn't like some of these 
pages, and the coders aren't doing a good job of updating the pages to 
fit standards-based browsers better.

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Albert

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