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Date:      Wed, 21 Nov 2001 12:42:11 +0000
From:      John Ekins <jre@globalnet.co.uk>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: home pc use
Message-ID:  <3BFBA123.E3BBF104@globalnet.co.uk>
References:  <15354.60877.44081.17515@guru.mired.org><019701c17224$013e6520$0a00000a@atkielski.com><15355.2770.644343.846234@guru.mired.org><01e201c17234$24bc2360$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <15355.6508.841314.798412@guru.mired.org> <005001c17288$c17d0800$0a00000a@atkielski.com>

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Anthony Atkielski wrote:

> That was Netscape's problem, not Microsoft's.  I stopped supporting Netscape 4.x
> over a year ago because the browser has so many bugs that it at least doubles
> development time for any page or site, and because virtually no one is using
> Netscape browsers today, anyway (less than 2% of visitors to my site).  In order
> to support Netscape 4.x, you have to write two versions of every page: one for
> Netscape, and one for all the other browsers in the world that adhere to W3C
> standards.  Either that, or you have to create pages so lame that people fall
> asleep reading them.  I voted to just drop Netscape support, and write for all
> the other browsers.  The poor CSS support was one of the worst problems with
> that version of Netscape.

Hold on a second. If you "stopped supporting Netscape 4.x over a year ago"
why is it in your list of installed software?? And if you "voted to just
drop Netscape support" why do you have Netscape installed at all??

John.

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