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RE: techport80

• Posted by acran at readout.fsnet.co.uk Sep 17, 2002
• 501 views

Hello Ron,

I've a copy of Netscape Navigator 4.6 and if you don't mind the wait I
could snail mail you a copy on CD-R.  Email me personally if interested.
The reason I make this offer is that I think it is important that if you
want as many visitors to your website to have a "good experience" then
their choice of browser should not penalise that opportunity.  The only way
you will know if your site looks good on Netscape 4.6 is to try it yourself
hence my offer.

Why do people run with "old" and "arcane" browsers like Netscape Navigator
4.6?

There are two reasons I can see but I'm sure there are others:

Reason #1

Security.  Bleeding edge browser technology contains bugs.  The older
browsers have bugs too but patches might be available or you are more
driven by...

Reason #2

Not everyone has a machine that can run the latest browsers.  Netscape 6.X
and up and IE 6.0 are resource hogs.  They won't fly without major
turbulance on a Pentium 100 (and BTW that is what I use to surf the web).

Having your website only work "nicely" if you run an up to date browser is
like telling a user to switch to 1024x768 display resolution before they
can run a particular application.

Regards,

Andy Cranston.

At 12:35 17/09/02 +0000, you wrote:
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>Thankyou for your input regarding netscape 4.7.  I'm not able to
>test for that version of netscape because I deleted my last copy
>of that browser 2 or 3 months ago..  Techport80 uses web technology like 
>CSS,W3C Dom, and javascript.  The point is you'll need a 
>current browser to access my page.  I've tested the site with....
>
>Netscape 6.2
>Netscape 7.0 Beta
>Netscape 7.0 (just released yesterday!!)
>Ie       5.5
>Ie       6.0
>Konqurer 2.0 (as distributed with Redhat 7.2)
>Opera    6.0 
>
>Other current W3C standard browsers should work.  As mentioned in 
>another to gain access to some of features requirer you to login.  
>Logging in is required because when you login, you'll have some limited 
>access to write text to my hard drive.  Before I give that kind of 
>access, I would at least like to know a little about you.  Like your 
>name and e-mail address for example.  I invite you to come back to my 
>site and give it another try.  
>
>Ron_W
>http://www.techport80.com
>
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>Christian.CUVIER at agriculture.gouv.fr wrote:
>> 	I just tried to connect to the page, getting an intermediate condition.
>> 	With Netscape 4.7, the home page looks horrible, although it is Ok with
>> IE.
>> 	I got no internal server error, but the code bank page asks for a
>> logon-id a password.
>> 
>> 	So?
>> 
>> 	CChris
>> 
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