RE: [SLE] SuSE 6.3 + Netscape 4.7
I'll have a shufty at the Netscape site as the NS4.72 from the SuSE 6.4 Update section still gives the same errors - layers are displayed all over the place. I am not liking Netscape 4.x very much - all the lovely sites I design with Layers just display very very badly on NS for Linux. NS6 is a LOVELY web browser... just waiting for a new release and I'm away with IE5 as my default browser (on Windows, anyway!). I was discussing with a friend how annoying it is designing web sites that look great on one machine, and look terrible on another and the various permutations that can exist - NS on Windows displays thinsg fine - Linux doesn't. I know we have to design for the older browsers, but the techniques I use don't gel well with them. But, at the same time the Linux website I'm designing won't look good if I put a "Best Viewed With Internet Explorer" button on it!!! I don't want to go back to the old 'Centre/Center' web page design that spotty 13 year olds design in their bedrooms - nor battle with Frames!! (Though my collegue is resorting to this now for our site). Never been a fan of Netscape - but I do reckon NS6 has changed that. I'll stop now because I'm starting a browser war with myself! Kev
-----Original Message----- From: Ben Rosenberg [mailto:ben@whack.org] Sent: 27 April 2000 19:31 To: SuSE Linux List (E-mail) Subject: Re: [SLE] SuSE 6.3 + Netscape 4.7
Try getting this file. It's under unsupported on Netscape's site. It's the 128 bit version, but I am sure there is a 40bit version if you so desire.
communicator-v472-us.x86-unknown-linux2.2.tar.gz
I thought that maybe it was specifcally for the 2.2.X kernel I maybe wrong about this, but it doesn't crash very much and seems to run pretty well.
I'm having a problem with Netscape 4.7 that comes with SuSE 6.3 When I design sites with layers - either SOME layers are in
are just all over the show when viewed with NS4.7! If I view the site in IE4 or above all is well. If I view
just my 0.02 place or some this on Netscape
for Windows all is well. Mozilla5 all is well (on Windows).
This is worrying because the main site I'm working on is a Linux site! Is there an update available for NS4.7 for SuSE 6.3?
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I am not liking Netscape 4.x very much - all the lovely sites I design with Layers just display very very badly on NS for Linux. NS6 is a LOVELY web browser... just waiting for a new release and I'm away with IE5 as my default browser (on Windows, anyway!).
Netscape's implementation of layers (and other CSS features) has always been a bit dubious. You'll have the same problems with IE5 on Windows vs IE5 on the Mac. There just isn't much consistency between the same browsers for different platforms, let alone across different browsers. It stems from the application developers using features of the underlying GUI API; if a feature doesn't exist they either don't implement what they want to, or they botch around it as best they can. Things like positioning a layer outside of it's containing browser window can be done on some platforms but not on others. We still need a standard, and although Mozilla is coming along, IE5 is the defacto standard at the moment. This won't remain the position, especially when users start accessing the web with devices other than PCs, but it'll take ages for Microsoft to adapt IE5 to the W3C standards - if they ever capitulate and do so at all. In the meantime, users complain and web developers suffer. -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
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