I use AOL to test files, but do so after it is uploaded.  I have never
figured out how to keep it from dialing up, or in my case accessing the
cable modem.

In the early days of AOL ( version 2 and 3 )  it was pretty far behind
Netscape and I.E. in capabilities and almost daily testing of new pages was
necessary, but it seems the current versions are pretty up to date
supporting most CSS font statements and most JavaScript.

The worst part about AOL now is what they do to your graphic files because
they convert graphics to their own format to save bandwidth and some of them
come out looking bad.  This is made worse because they set up the AOL
browser default graphics at 256 colors and what this does to some images
can't be repeated in polite society.

> Is anyone using the AOL browser to see local files before they are
> published to the Internet?  We would like to do this with files that are
> developed on an internal, networked web server, but these files aren't
> available on the public Internet.  Every time I try to do this with an
> AOL browser, it wants to dial up.  Do you have to have an AOL account to
> do absolutely anything with the browser?
>
> It sure would be nice to see the destruction AOL causes BEFORE the web
> pages are publicly available.
>
> TIA,
> Amy Gosse
> Children's Hospital of Wisconsin

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