Re: Netscape 6 bashing

Therein lies your problem too.

WaSP calls NN 4 a horror of horrors and applauds NN 6 cautiously --
mainly because NN 6 has left out a lot of stuff that came in through
the Mozilla browser experiment and it's got many bugs, bugs that were
solved in Mozilla but not included in NN 6; nobody knows why.

NN6 and Opera 5 are the future of web. Coding by standards and not by
browsers. Like somebody said, code using the recommendations and
*then* add the browser specific stuff. If you need to change the
coding radically, use browser detection and then multiple instances.

NN 6 is here and there is no denying it that people are going to start
shifting... I seriously recommend you visit WaSP [1] sometime for some
insight on how browser technology has responded to demands for
supporting standards and where it is headed. Helps to keep your eyes
on the future in this business. ;)

[abhay]

[1] http://www.webstandards.org


----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Angelopoulos" <angelopoulos(at)csi.com>
Sent: Monday, February 12, 2001 1:49 AM


...
> I work in a software house and I can't tell you the amount of
> grief NN6 caused us initially.
>
> I have it installed, but use it as little as possible. I check
> my own work against IE4, IE 5, and NN4.x, and happily make
> changes when necessary. I shudder when I think about checking
> work against NN6.
>
> NN6 makes NN4.x look great in comparison. Maybe the opinion is
> unfair, but how many chances do I have to give Netscape to waste
> my time? I've gone from believing in universal browser support
> to "how can I best make use of my time and accommodate as many
> people as possible while meeting my deadlines."
...

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