NS 4.8 is fine its the 6+ series which are determined to imitate IE.
This foolishness is a waste for us when we have Opera which can handle it
just fine.
Then there is Konqueror and Gamaleon(sp?) and likely more.
CWSIV
On Sun, 29 Jun 2003 11:59:23 +0900 Peter Evans
I would like to upgrade my Netscape v4.8 to Netscape 7.x on SuSE 8.2. Should I remove the current version, or just install the new one over the other? Also, will this effect Mozilla, and if so, any hints on how to deal with this?
However, a couple of comments. Netscape 7 is not an upgrade to Netscape 4.x. The two programs are utterly different, linked only as a matter of marketing. Netscape 4.x is a dog, and rather unlike anything else, and for this very reason you might want to keep it around if you are thinking of writing any web pages: it's good to check that Netscape 4.x can render them legibly. Not only is Netscape 7 typically behind Mozilla (as pointed out earlier), it's said to be burdened down with attempts by TimeLifeWarnerAOL (etc.) to have you frequent their sites and buy their products. I don't know for sure as I've never tried it; and I've never tried it because I've never heard any argument for its superiority to Mozilla, which I've been very contentedly using since version 0.98 (and with more or less irritation since well before that). ________________________________________________________________ The best thing to hit the internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today!
This seems SuSE-irrelevant so I'll keep it short. Carl William Spitzer IV:
NS 4.8 is fine its the 6+ series which are determined to imitate IE.
Mozilla does not imitate IE. (I have no comment on Netscape 6+.)
This foolishness is a waste for us when we have Opera which can handle it just fine.
Handle what just fine? Mozilla and Opera are said to do about equally well at CSS; try them out at http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/css/edge/ . (I haven't yet tried Opera 7.x; Mozilla is better than Opera 6.x.)
Then there is Konqueror and Gamaleon(sp?) and likely more.
K-meleon and Galeon are themselves Mozilla derivatives. I haven't tried Galeon, but K-meleon did in some ways imitate IE the last time I looked. If you don't like Mozilla or its derivatives, fine. If you claim that NS 4.x was good in its day, fine. But an attempt to dissuade the users of Netscape 4.x from trying out Mozilla (or its commercialized derivative) seems odd to me.
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