And it came to pass that Foo Bar wrote:
>Until Netscape 4.x is retired, the Web will continue to be a
>festering, oozing piece of shit.
>
ACtually, that should read "Until FrontPage is retired..."
And until Netscape 6/Mozilla is ready for prime time, Netscape
4.xx will continue to be used. Whining won't change that.
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher Jahn) wrote:
>
>> And it came to pass that Foo Bar wrote:
>>
>> >Funny that these "mission-critical" functions are in a
>> >BROWSER whose fundamental purpose is none of these things.
>>
>> Au contraire, o unenlightened one. It's an internet suite
>> that includes an email and news client, as well as a web
>> page editor. And it does not yet work nearly as well as as
>> its predecessor.
>>
>> As for the browser, it still isn't doing all the things it
>> is designed to do properly: many folks are not able to
>> access all the websites that they can in NC4.xx (I am aware
>> of the cause), and if they can, they find that Mozilla/N6
>> does not properly print the pages, and they can't even
>> preview the page to see what they're printing.
>> Also, it's still not possible to drag URL's to the Personal
>> Toolbar as you can in NC4.XX
>>
>> When Mozilla/N6 matches or exceeds the utility of
>> Communicator 4.xx, then and only then will it be time to
>> retire Communicator 4.xx. It's getting better all the
>> time, but I still have to keep Communicator on hand to be
>> able to perform all my browsing tasks adequately.
>>
>>
>> >In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher Jahn) wrote:
>> >
>> >> And it came to pass that Foo Bar wrote:
>> >>
>> >> >Netscape 4.x is a hopelessly awful piece of software.
>> >> >Delete it from your disk as soon as possible.
>> >> >
>> >>
>> >> An "awful" peice of software that has working LDAP,
>> >> offline newsreading, IMAP, SSL, spellcheck and several
>> >> other mission- critical features lacking in Mozilla and
>> >> Netscape 6.
>> >
>
>
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