On Sun, 30 Dec 2001 20:46:58 +0000, Albert wrote: > 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. > Thanks both to Jonas and to you Albert. As I said, I was looking for an explanation, not making a criticism, and that holds good. Even so, and speaking as someone who has invested much time and effort in ridding his business of M$ products, I am left wondering about the ability of the open source community to win this particular standards battle. I send emails complaining to the webmasters of sites that require Ie, and if I understood the technicalities better, I would complain about any non-standards-compliant features I detected. I just don't get the impression that we are having any impact at all here, and it is very depressing when one gives demonstrations of open source systems only to find that the browsers are (in my personal and maybe untypical experience), very likely to choke on many of the sites that I need to take people to.
Regards, Geoff
