JTK wrote: >DeMoN LaG wrote: > >>JTK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in >>[EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED], on 23 Dec 2001: >> >>>Not quite a Mozilla question, but no, I've never seen anything like >>>that, and I download all kinds of crazy (and way-too-big) crappola. >>>What I do see quite often is both IE and Mozilla crapping out >>>during such a long download, especially over HTTP. Neither >>>development team apparently has ever heard about the fact that >>>Zmodem back in the Paleozoic Era could recover interrupted >>>downloads, and all semi-modern FTP servers (don't know about HTTP) >>>support resuming as well. Guess "append" is just too advanced a >>>concept in this Visual Basic / Java / >>>dumb-it-down-seven-shades-to-tuesday world we live in. >>> >>A) It is well documented that IE has problems downloading large files. >>I seem to recall Netscape's own webpage at one point saying "You may >>have to download an earlier version of Netscape, and then download >>Communicator 4.x", because IE would bomb before the whole thing was done >> > >Huh, never heard that one. But I did just read this when downloading >4.79: > >"Smart Update may not work properly on Windows 2000 and Windows XP when >upgrading from Communicator 4.78. We recommend that you use the base >install or complete install instead of Smart Update. The base and >complete installs are available at >ftp://ftp.netscape.com/pub/communicator/english/4.79/windows/windows95_or_nt/."; >- >http://home.netscape.com/eng/mozilla/4.7/relnotes/windows-4.79.html?cp=dowrel > >Well you can't really blame 'em I suppose. It must be pretty hard to >pump all those ads at you while simultaneously attempting to do >something halfway worthwhile. > >Oh, and does anybody else find it odd that AOL is *still* maintaining >the 4.7x series, all these years after Netscape 6.0 was released? Hmmm, >I wonder if they know something many here won't admit? > >>B) Mozilla is C/C++, JS, and XUL. No VB or Java necessary >> > >I was commenting on the sorry state of development in general. Kids >today, etc. > They know something that isn't publicized much. Supporting the 4.x series is called Corporate Customer Support. I'm sure eventually they'll just shove all of 4.x on the old and I think slow archive server.
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