At 00:52 30.04.2002, Jonathan M. Hollin wrote:
>Well, as I've seen before, it's not exactly easy to find
>what's causing NS4 to crash.

Absolutely ridiculous.  All this time and effort wasted in an attempt to
support a deprecated web browser client.  Statistically NS4 users number
between 4% - 6% of our potential users (at the time of writing), as
indicated by http://www.upsdell.com/BrowserNews/stat.htm.  Yet, for some
reason, we've let this (let's be generous) 6% of users occupy such a
large percentage of our time.

I feel the same way. The problem is that in trying to support NS4, we're letting go of many other possibilities which would have been so great. Now I would have loved it if it worked on NS4, but as it goes here, I don't think it's worth it anymore. The only way to get it to work under NS4 would probably have been to build a site with only <table> and <font> tags, and that's not what we want.


So, why don't we do those users (and web-developers everywhere) a
favour?  Use mod_rewrite (or similar) to detect NS4 and send them to a
page that advises them to upgrade to a nice, new, shiny browser (with
the relevant links).  Tell them quite clearly that we're not forcing

I don't like those pages who force you to use another browser. If they can get enough out of it, fine for them. If not, they'll know to change.



-- Per Einar Ellefsen [EMAIL PROTECTED]



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