"Geoff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > 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. > > > 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. > I haven't seen Netscape's numbers (at my sites) rise one percentage point in the last three years. Then again, they haven't dropped either...
jy
