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Alternate Browsers, Which One?

Opera
4
17%
Mozilla
18
75%
Netscape
2
8%
 
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Jenny
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Joined: Wed 20 Aug, 2003 23.29

I still have Netscape 4.06 which is ancient in computer terms but nevertheless it can handle most things the modern web throws at it. Mozilla is my browser of choice now though!
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DJGM
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Joined: Fri 15 Aug, 2003 15.39
Location: Manchester
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Jenny wrote: I still have Netscape 4.06, which is ancient in computer terms but
nevertheless it can handle most things the modern web throws at it.
Except for most pages written mostly with W3C standards compliant code.

A few examples:
Eric Meyer's CSS Demo - Mozilla.org - CSS ZenGarden

These sites, and many others, cannot be displayed properly in Netscape 4.x.

Essentially, Netscape 4.x is not just ancient, but completely, 100% obsolete.
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Pete
Posts: 7601
Joined: Fri 15 Aug, 2003 13.36
Location: Dundee

DJGM wrote:
Jenny wrote: I still have Netscape 4.06, which is ancient in computer terms but
nevertheless it can handle most things the modern web throws at it.
Except for most pages written mostly with W3C standards compliant code.

A few examples:
Eric Meyer's CSS Demo - Mozilla.org - CSS ZenGarden

These sites, and many others, cannot be displayed properly in Netscape 4.x.

Essentially, Netscape 4.x is not just ancient, but completely, 100% obsolete.
Last time I tried my website with link tags pointing to the stylesheets instead of imports (henceforth allowing NS4 to see the CSS) it crashed.
"He has to be larger than bacon"
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Pete
Posts: 7601
Joined: Fri 15 Aug, 2003 13.36
Location: Dundee

<strong>Mozilla Firefox 0.8</strong>
<strong>The Browser, Reloaded</strong>

Yes it's out today and is fabber than ever, mind you the download server is all broke so maybe wait till tomorrow to download unless you are on good BB.

<a href="http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox ... irefox/</a>
"He has to be larger than bacon"
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MarkN
Posts: 323
Joined: Fri 15 Aug, 2003 19.39
Location: South Wales

http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.mozil ... eases/0.8/
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cdd
Posts: 2610
Joined: Fri 15 Aug, 2003 14.05

Hello from Moz. Firefox!
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harshy
Posts: 35
Joined: Sun 12 Oct, 2003 21.45

I use Mozilla Firebird, it's really useful for people like me who needs to develop websites, which is cross browser compliant(I just hope my mocks website is!)
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James Martin
Posts: 1011
Joined: Sun 15 Feb, 2004 19.26

Quite like Firefox but try using IE6 in XP on Metropol and you'll find that it looks 100 times better.
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Pete
Posts: 7601
Joined: Fri 15 Aug, 2003 13.36
Location: Dundee

Flava wrote:Quite like Firefox but try using IE6 in XP on Metropol and you'll find that it looks 100 times better.
you keep saying that JM but the only differences I can see are the thinkness of the quote box and the size of the topic title on these pages, both of which would easily be fixed
"He has to be larger than bacon"
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dvboy
Posts: 218
Joined: Wed 03 Dec, 2003 01.59
Location: Wolverhampton, West Midlands

I am converted: I just downlaoded Mozilla Firefox 0.8
NEW improved BBC Sport Interactive listings for DigiGuide TV Guide.
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MarkN
Posts: 323
Joined: Fri 15 Aug, 2003 19.39
Location: South Wales

Flava wrote:Quite like Firefox but try using IE6 in XP on Metropol and you'll find that it looks 100 times better.
Please provide some evidence for this statement.
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