wordpress.com squarespace.com MyBlogSite.com/ blogger.com xanga.com blogjet.com
livejournal.com is sort of ok - you can follow screen instructions at least blogware.com also seems just about okay
So the 'nonsense' is that the medium is blocking the (potential) message.
JW
(this is not an exhaustive list - just what I could tolerate doing over an hour switching between Netscape 4 and IE6 for comparison)
Point of Information - the Digital Divide home page displays, but none of the discussion board facilities display in Netscape 4
At 04:08 16/04/2005, Todd Seal wrote:
I don't have figures for browser configurations in that part of the world, but I have trouble with their assessment that blogs don't display correctly in NS4 (I assume 4.7, but it may be 4.5). Most blog software just takes what you type into it, stores it in a database, and spits out code when you want it. That is all done on the Web server, independent of your browser. The way it's displayed has to do with the code the blog software spits out. That can be changed to suit the purpose. If that person is having trouble with blogs displaying correctly in NS4, it's most likely simply a matter of a CSS-based layout or just the software producing troubled code. Easily fixed.
If folks using NS4 want content, they get it without any fancy layout. I don't see a problem with that. But this idea of blogging software not working in NS4 is nonsense. The only thing I can think of is dealing with logging into blog software. Much of the time, those administration panels are full of code that doesn't render well in older browsers. Again, though, this is just a matter of modifying the code it spits out.
Back on the topic here (sorry for that, but I get into discussions about such things!), what is wrong with using CSS to create the layout, thereby serving up to NS4 users a sort of plain text version of your site? Look at most modern sites and turn CSS off (somewhere in your browser options). What's wrong with that presentation? A computer with NS4 probably isn't working terribly fast, so those graphics and such that CSS brings in would take too long to display anyhow. If you're writing valid (X)HTML, you page content will show up just fine. Isn't that the important stuff, anyhow? It's all about the content, right? Shouldn't the latest W3C standards work just fine for international audiences?
-todd seal
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