Re: How to get http://my.gnus.org to work in Netscape Communicator 4.74

[spamtrap@koldfront.dk (Adam Sjøgren)]

On 13 Sep 2002 14:11:23 -0400, Don Saklad wrote:

> With all due respect, is it another example of being arrogant and
> patronizing?...

No, I don't think it is.

On the other hand I think it's slighly arrogant of you to imply that
the author of my.gnus.org should spend time working around bugs in
ancient, defective software.

It's is an unfortunate fact of life that Netscape 4 is defect in such
a way, that it tries to interpret some of the standards (especially
stylesheets) related to the world wide web in very wrong ways.

If Netscape 4 did what the standards say - ignore the stuff you don't
understand - there would be no problem. But it doesn't.

Due to those problems, it is not recommendable that anyone use
Netscape 4.

> There might be some way to get http://my.gnus.org to work with
> Netscape Communicator 4.74 in the effort to reach novice beginners
> who don't know a lot.

There might be. To know whether the effort that would take is
worthwhile, you need to consider how that time could otherwise be
spent benefitting novices and others a whole lot more.

If you don't agree, tell me this: Why Netscape 4? Why not version 3, 2
or 1?

> There might be someone else who knows what can be done for novices
> using Netscape. Rather than asking people to make an adjustment,
> things could be set up so that people could get the information from
> http://my.gnus.org in Netscape, buggy or not.

You yourself pointed out the obvious thing to do: Use Microsoft
Internet Explorer. Most novices do. I merely added some of the other
choices that people, novices and experts alike, have to the list.


  Best regards,

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