Re: Netscape 6 browser (was Re: James Roberts)

by "Justin H." <justinh(at)whidbey.net>
Date:	Sun, 11 Feb 2001 09:35:20 -0800
To:	"HWG Basics" <hwg-basics(at)hwg.org>
References:	oemcomputer
	todo: View Thread, Original
I don't know if I have a suggestion, but perhaps some explanation will help?

Netscape 6 is now using the Java 2 plugin from Sun (JRE 1.3, I believe).
All internal Java development by Netscape has been stopped.  I believe there
are FAQs on the Sun site regarding compatability issues with previous Java
versions.

Have you tried 6.01?  There are some minor tweaks and there may be better
java support in there.  They got Flash running, so who knows what they did
to Java. :-)

Justin H.

----- Original Message -----
From: "sfmalo" <sfmalo(at)msn.com>
To: "Chuck Evans" <Chucke(at)captura.com>
Cc: <hwg-basics(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2001 2:08 AM
Subject: Netscape 6 browser (was Re: James Roberts)


> I want to thank everyone for their helpful input about my problems with a
> client's site viewing strangely in the Netscape 6 browser. I made some
> recommended changes and, tonight, I finally successfully loaded and
running
> the browser executable, so could finally view it for myself. Just about
> everything is fixed and looks "normal" again. Whoopeee!
>
> Chuck, you mentioned that the "go to top" arrow at the bottom of my pages
> wasn't working and suggested a fix. Well, I put the fix in, that is,
placing
> <a name="top"></a> just below the <body> tag on each page ... and it still
> doesn't work. What a mystery. Also, it takes two clicks for my bottom left
> arrow (go to previous page) to work. Will I have to rewrite the javascript
> snippet I used for both and, if so, what should I write?
>
> I then visited my site and some other of my clients' sites ... and ran
into
> a ghastly problem using Netscape 6. I have two applets on my own site that
> are now royally messing up each page they're on.  They both are making
their
> respective screens flicker and one is not even running. Just a big box
shows
> with code instructions inside!!!!! The other page displays the text
(slowly
> and badly) against a strange gold background while the screen flickers.
The
> worst is one of my client's sites that I just revised has an applet on the
> portal page which makes the screen flicker and twitch and doesn't display
> properly. Wow.
>
> Any suggestions before the client finds out?
> Sharon (<:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Chuck Evans" <Chucke(at)captura.com>
> To: "'sfmalo'" <sfmalo(at)msn.com>
> Sent: Friday, January 26, 2001 4:55 PM
> Subject: RE: James Roberts
>
>
> > All the links work (as do the bottom "top" and "back" arrows) and all
the
> > pages look fine in NN 3.04. The home page though has a grey background.
> You
> > might want to put bgcolor="white" in your body tag.
> >
> > In NN6, however, the "top" arrows don't work. You need to actually have
an
> > <a name="top"></a> at the top of your pages (after the body tag) or it
> won't
> > work.
> >
> > All the links work in NN6, but the sub pages all have a weird margin on
> the
> > paragraph text. They are very thin (only about an inch wide). The only
> pages
> > that DON'T look bad are: Directions, Publications and Reports, and
About.
> >
> > Hope this helps.
> >
> > Chuck Evans
> > Captura, Inc.
> > (425) 803-6455
> > http://www.captura.com
> >
> >
>
>
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