Re: [HOE] Check out Greg's Weird Wild West! [OT]

[Allan Seyberth <darious@darious.com>]

 >     When we were designing our storefront, we ran into the same problem
 >with Netscape.  There were two ways we found to best fix the dual
 >requirements of appeasing backwater netscape users.  Netscape, by the way,
 >is very finicky about what html codes it will actually accept.

Not true.  Netscape is very finicky about those codes that Microsoft pushed 
forward before adoption by the W3C commission.

 >Anyway, for
 >our pictures, we just had to recode everything, so that Netscape would see
 >them, which was easy enough, considering, that anything Netscape will view,
 >Explorer will too.

Also, not true.  There are, indeed, a couple of non-standard codes that 
work fine on Netscape.

 >  But the dang scroll bars and drop menus, became such a
 >bitch to fix, we finally just created autoforward pages, that sent Netscape
 >users to a page that would cater to them......BLAH....

That's good. . . because this backwater Netscape user has never bought 
anything off of a site that some lazy webmaster only coded for IE.


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Allan Seyberth
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