Daily Archives: 18.Jun.03

Netscape 4 Must DIE!

My loathing of Netscape 4.x increases daily. It is the only browser that requires extensive backward-compatible HTML code changes in order to render pages correctly. Microsoft has pretty successfully upgraded most users away from the IE 4.x branch, yet there are a couple percentage points of any site that still hang on to Netscape 4.x. C’mon people, you are holding up the works. Yahoo! and their <spacer> tags, table tags using HTML 3.2 coding, using tables for layout, all these things could be greatly mitigated if we could have a decent campaign to rid the world of Netscape 4.x. Maybe little ‘Netscape 4.x not welcome’ buttons? I am not advocating everyone use IE. Far from it. Upgrade to Netscape 7, or use the browser Netscape is derived from, Mozilla – both have built-in pop-up suppression, reason enough IMHO to upgrade. Or use Opera or if you are on OS X and haven’t installed Safari you better get on it because Microsoft ain’t makin’ IE for the Mac no more. If you like your browsers lean and mean, try Firebird (Win,Mac,Linux) or Camino (OS X), both offshoots of the same Mozilla code that make up Netscape 7. Netscape 4.x is five years old now folks. There are alot of nifty things that can be done with HTML that will enhance your Internet experience. So please, on behalf of web developers everywhere, UPGRADE!