On Sun, 2002-02-17 at 14:11, Andre Dubuc wrote: > Hi Chuck, > > The big question: did you keep Netscape 6.2? Is it worth the trouble? -- I'm > developing a website and I'm just curious to see how it compares to the > Netscape 4.xx that came with LM 8.0.
I guess a big difference here is that my LM 8.1 also came with a recent version of Mozilla, which is basically equivalent, as far as I can see, to Netscape 6.2. I also set up Red Carpet, where the most recent releases of Mozilla keep appearing. After I began to notice that Mozilla and Netscape 6.2 were getting confused with each other, I got rid of Netscape and kept Mozilla, because I figured it would be easier to keep getting updates through Red Carpet. But to answer your original question, there is simply no comparison between Netscape 4.7 and 6.2. This has been especially true in my case, since I am working on the development of multilingual web-based XML Unicode dictionaries (see www.acmuller.net; if you want to dig into this deeply, you will need a password, so just write to me and I will give you one.). Netscape 6.2 (and of course, its Mozilla equivalent) handles UTF-8 and XML very well. Netscape 4.7 handles Unicode poorly, and does not recognize XML at all. Netscape 6.2 is easy to install, but as someone already suggested, it is better to locate and download the whole RPM file rather than try to use their installer app. Also, when Netscape 6.2 installs itself, it does not recognize itself as an upgrade of 4.7, and thus does not get rid of 4.7. I would therefore suggest that you uninstall 4.7 first. If you don't, when you set your HTML file associations to Netscape, it will continue to call 4.7 rather than 6.2. HTH Chuck --------------------- Charles Muller Digital Dictionarie of Chinese and Buddhism www.acmuller.net
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