Geoff wrote: > Hi, > > This post is *not* a complaint. I have nothing but admiration and > gratitude for the developers of moz, galeon, and opera, all of which I > use. I am not a fluent programmer and I do not pretend to understand > javascript. I would, however, be really grateful if someone could explain, > in terms I have a chance of understanding, why it is that so many sites > (especially commercial sites), can be viewed without problems in my clunky > old Netscape 4.76, but throw up (in particular), javascript errors or > otherwise fail to render properly in any of the more recent browsers I > have mentioned? I understand that opera has its own design and problems, > but could not the core functionality of Netscape 4 have been carried over > into moz?
Mozilla has been built to be standards compliant. Unfortunately many sites are using bad browser sniffing which sends code written for Netscape 4 to all Mozilla/x.x versions. So when you see a site that Mozilla can't handle but Netscape 4.x can, 99% of the time it's the site's fault and not Mozilla's. -- /Jonas
