Sent by Stefan Huszics on 31 January 2003 11:11
Felix Miata wrote:
>Bill Daly wrote:
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>>It would be more cost effective to convince that one
>>person to upgrade their browser than to spend the time
>>designing towards Netscape 4.
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>>Designing towards Netscape 4 is a self-fulfilling
>>prophecy. If you don't give your users a reason to
>>upgrade, they're not going to upgrade.
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>Many people stick with N4 because of hardware. For ordinary web surfing
>on POTS, a 486-33 w/ 16MB RAM and N4 is all anyone needs. Older hardware
>is often used in gummints and non-profit organizations. Upgrading to
>most newer browsers by people with such hardware simply isn't doable.
>New software typically requires 64 MB or more of RAM and 233MHz+ CPU.
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You can get Gecko browser that easily matches NS 4 performance on old
hardware.
Win have K-Meleon
Mac has Chimera
Linux Galleon, Skipstone and a bunch of others
Also there is always Opera.
They all blow the socks of NS 4 in standards support and don't need
233+MHz CPUs either (486 works just fine)
Informing your NS 4 users of these options is probably much better spend
time then coding for NS 4
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/Stefan
Software never has bugs. It just develops random features. =)