Hi Sheila
As Kriss and Sally have mentioned, institutions are still running
Netscape 4. There are resource implications in upgrading browsers,
especially in a distributed environment.
Interestingly at the Web Managers workshop the need to get rid of
Netscape 4 within the community was mentioned on several occasions,
including the Techies discussion group.
With the SENDA legislation approaching, this may act as a spur to get
rid of Netscape 4, as this has very poor support for stylesheets, which
are needed to maximise the accessibility of Web pages.
However this still leaves open the browser which should replace
Netscape 4. From recent discussions, Netscape 6 is flawed (I think
Kriss mentioned that it can't display Netscape home page properly).
Mozilla 1.0 sounds promising - but so did Netscape 6 when it came out.
Has anyone tested it extensively yet?).
I've used Opera as my default browser for 6 months or so. This has
been fine - but there is an ad in the browser which people may not like.
Discusions about other mainstream browsers tends to be rather
emotive.
The Web Standards project is probably a good place to look at for
comments on standards-compliant browsers - see
http://www.webstandards.org/act/campaign/buc/
Brian
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> Subject: Usage of Netscape 4 and/or MSIE 4
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>
> A while ago, I recall reading or hearing that a considerable
> number of UK academic users were still using a version 4
> browser. Our software people are pushing me to stop bothering
> about making our pages suitable for use on such antiquated
> browsers. Our usage logs indicate that we have very few
> visitors with MSIE 4 or Netscape 4, so it is getting harder
> to resist the pressure.
>
> Can anyone give me an idea whether academic institutions have
> upgraded?
>
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