Re: HELP! Portal Crash under netscape 6!

Matthew Brealey wrote: > > It does not support many more good things known to everyone. > > Like what? I just supplied a link to a page to read where several of those well-known goodies missing from Netscape 6 . Precisely. Note, that I meant Netscape 6, not Mozilla. Some bugs fixed in Mozilla are being present in Netscape 6. > > Netscape 6 is not the product to support by now. > > Don't even try. > > Unless you want people to actually read your pages rather than going > somewhere else. > Unless you don't think you have the right to tell people that they must > change their browser to view your pitiful little page. Well, how do you know how little and pity will be a project? :) It does not matter, since NS6 is buggy, and to support it means to support its bugs and code workarounds for bugs that may be eliminated in future. Do you think that any page is worth debugging with any of the numerous future preview releases of NS6 ?? :) Again, I'm talking about Netscape 6 in its present state. It's awful enough. It is even worse then Netscape Communicator 4.* series. I won't, of cource, make people change their browser, I'll just tell them not to blame me if they use a buggy app. They probably would get not as fancy page, as others, but at least readable :) > But realise that while it tells the truth that Netscape 6 is beta- > quality in that it has some big holes and shouldn't have been released > quite so soon (although in fact *all products* have big bugs in them - > it's Mozilla's openness that hurts Netscape), it's a beta of the most > complete browser in existence. Yes. And it also tells that Netscape team (not Mozilla team) is very reluctant to fix the bugs. They eager to release that buggy chunk of code ASAP, and seem not to have time and effort to fix it before. And, because of it, the probability that "the most complete browser in existense" will remain in beta quality is big enough. And, because of that, I insist on not supporting current NS6 snapshots at all . When NS6 will be done and will really support standards, It'll be much simplier to code for it. Not now. -- Best regards, Max A. Derkachev mailto:kot@books.ru Symbol-Plus Publishing Ltd. phone: +7 (812) 265-0054, 265-1228, phone/fax: 567-8775 http://www.Books.Ru -- All Books of Russia