> Any comments from those in the know.
> Are procedures say that all web sites must work
> with both Netscape and IE !
>
> A colleague said:-
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> Quite amazingly I spotted that Netscape's own website does
> not work at all under Netscape 4.02, and works extremely
> badly under Netscape 6.02 for Linux (masses of bugs
> including text overlapping, poor table interpretation, forms
> that have boxes floating in the wrong places and more). Under
> Netscape 6.02 for windows there are still some bugs.
>
> What chance do we have if these people cannot even code for
> their own browsers?
Hi Sally
The Netscape codebase is very poor (when they first developed
Netscape the software developers did not understand / care about SGML,
and the code processed tags sequentailly, rather than building a tree
for processing. They also deployed their own propritary ways of
implementing, for example, style sheets (JSS). This has now been
abandoned, and AOL Netscape say that they will support W3C standards,
but their software suffers from their history.
> The netscape website works fine under Internet Explorer.
> Has Bill Gates been hacking this site or what?
This has got nothing to do with it. Admitting that the Netscape browser
is flawed does not mean that you have to like Microsoft!
It will be interesting to see what will happen with Mozilla 1.0 (now
available) and Netscape 7.0 (pre-release currently available).
Brian
> Sally Justice
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