was eloquently put and I am in the same category - I consider myself an avid enthusiast;I absolutley admire this technology and those that have the where-with-all to put all of this together for the rest of us to use in our everyday work and recreation. One really interesting aspect of all of this is that everyone can have completely different experiences using the exact same software but on different OS's or machines. I, for one, have had a very different experience using the Mozilla builds, I've actually rid my system of of Netscape 4.x and 6.x, 6.x seems to be about 8 steps behind Mozilla on any given day, I now find that I use Mozilla about 99% of the time now; I have a very good browsing experience and the email/newsgroups works perfectly on my machine. This was simply my 2c re: this post and my high compliments to those capable contributors to this project. Perhaps I should insert this in a separate post; there have been a lot of responses to Geoff's post and this may get lost in the shuffle but here goes: I update my builds fairly frequently, just wanted to check if I'm doing this correctly: I go to the www.mozilla.org page and then go to the box 'nightly builds' and then I click on my OS (Win) and download begins. It seems I am downloading a complete new program each time. Does this download actually build on my previous installation or does it completely install a whole new installation of the Mozilla 0.9.7+ build? In other words, am I downloading more than I should each time? As I stated, I am an enthusiast.
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 >
