Re: Hey Bill Huges
 

That's what I do. It is a decent newsgroup program.

Mike

John Murphy wrote:
>
> I did find some problems with some other sites with this one, so I just
> decided to use this for the JEEP group stuff
>
> John in Vegas
>
> Mike Romain wrote:
>
> > The netscape browser 4.7x is now useless because everyone is using the
> > newer microcrap that refuses to talk to it. I just have mine set for a
> > blank page on start.
> >
> > Same for the 4.7x email. If someone using the new microcrap html code
> > sends you an email it will be blank in the body. Billy boy decided if
> > you don't use his crap, then you don't deserve email. You can view it
> > using the 'page source' in the View box.
> >
> > I still use 4.79 for newsgroups, but have the latest 'anniversary'
> > edition of the browser.
> >
> > Mike
> > 86/00 CJ7 Laredo, 33x9.5 BFG Muds, 'glass nose to tail in '00
> > 88 Cherokee 235 BFG AT's
> > Canadian Off Road Trips Photos: Non members can still view!
> > Jan/06 http://www.imagestation.com/album/pi...?id=2115147590
> > (More Off Road album links at bottom of the view page)
> >
> > John Murphy wrote:
> > >
> > > > OK Bill. I got the 4.7 loaded and the NG running fine, Thanks. Very
> > > > strange, but when netscape loads the homepage, it is really messd up.
> > > > That doesnt matter, just irratating, Maybe I can fix it when I find
> > > > some more time.
> > >
> > > John in Vegas

Re: Hey Bill Huges
 

That's what I do. It is a decent newsgroup program.

Mike

John Murphy wrote:
>
> I did find some problems with some other sites with this one, so I just
> decided to use this for the JEEP group stuff
>
> John in Vegas
>
> Mike Romain wrote:
>
> > The netscape browser 4.7x is now useless because everyone is using the
> > newer microcrap that refuses to talk to it. I just have mine set for a
> > blank page on start.
> >
> > Same for the 4.7x email. If someone using the new microcrap html code
> > sends you an email it will be blank in the body. Billy boy decided if
> > you don't use his crap, then you don't deserve email. You can view it
> > using the 'page source' in the View box.
> >
> > I still use 4.79 for newsgroups, but have the latest 'anniversary'
> > edition of the browser.
> >
> > Mike
> > 86/00 CJ7 Laredo, 33x9.5 BFG Muds, 'glass nose to tail in '00
> > 88 Cherokee 235 BFG AT's
> > Canadian Off Road Trips Photos: Non members can still view!
> > Jan/06 http://www.imagestation.com/album/pi...?id=2115147590
> > (More Off Road album links at bottom of the view page)
> >
> > John Murphy wrote:
> > >
> > > > OK Bill. I got the 4.7 loaded and the NG running fine, Thanks. Very
> > > > strange, but when netscape loads the homepage, it is really messd up.
> > > > That doesnt matter, just irratating, Maybe I can fix it when I find
> > > > some more time.
> > >
> > > John in Vegas

Re: Hey Bill Huges
 

I just want to click and use.

Lon wrote:

> Internet Exploder is a bit more CSS and HTML compliant than Netscape 4.7
> ever was, even if IE did then go on to add all sorts of "features" to
> allow attackers to take total control of your computer without your
> knowledge [oh, say as recently as this week]. No, I never used IE
> except for cross-compatibility checking, I used Netscape and if the web
> site wouldn't work, it had better have one really good reason I would
> want to visit it.
>
> To make a web page that would display even close to identical in both
> Netscape 4.7 and IE you would have to do browser checking and cheat and
> add "nudges" to all positioning elements on the page and also refrain
> from using some very nice features such as odd point and pixel sizes for
> fonts.
>
> Plus Netscape 4.7 had a huge GDI resource leak and corruption on the
> non-NT based operating systems...to the point that the mozilla folks
> released a kewl GDI viewer tool to help debug it.
>
> Mozilla 1.7.13 works as well or better than Netscape 4.7 ever did and
> can view HTML mail as something resembling text for those who have such
> a problem expressing themselves that they must use pictures, fonts, etc.
> rather than simply learning how to write. It has the added advantage of
> fully supporting *compliant* CSS and HTML, plus you can put a content
> header on your pages to get a quirks mode that is reasonably close to
> old 4.x Netscape.
>
> Seamonkey suite is coming along, although I personally use the latest
> builds off the alpha branch as being just a tad less buggy than their
> released versions.
>
> Mike Romain proclaimed:
>
> > The netscape browser 4.7x is now useless because everyone is using the
> > newer microcrap that refuses to talk to it. I just have mine set for a
> > blank page on start.
> >
> > Same for the 4.7x email. If someone using the new microcrap html code
> > sends you an email it will be blank in the body. Billy boy decided if
> > you don't use his crap, then you don't deserve email. You can view i
> > using the 'page source' in the View box.
> >
> > I still use 4.79 for newsgroups, but have the latest 'anniversary'
> > edition of the browser.
> >
> > Mike
> > 86/00 CJ7 Laredo, 33x9.5 BFG Muds, 'glass nose to tail in '00
> > 88 Cherokee 235 BFG AT's
> > Canadian Off Road Trips Photos: Non members can still view!
> > Jan/06 http://www.imagestation.com/album/pi...?id=2115147590
> > (More Off Road album links at bottom of the view page)
> >
> > John Murphy wrote:
> >
> >>>OK Bill. I got the 4.7 loaded and the NG running fine, Thanks. Very
> >>>strange, but when netscape loads the homepage, it is really messd up.
> >>>That doesnt matter, just irratating, Maybe I can fix it when I find
> >>>some more time.
> >>
> >>John in Vegas

Re: Hey Bill Huges
 

I just want to click and use.

Lon wrote:

> Internet Exploder is a bit more CSS and HTML compliant than Netscape 4.7
> ever was, even if IE did then go on to add all sorts of "features" to
> allow attackers to take total control of your computer without your
> knowledge [oh, say as recently as this week]. No, I never used IE
> except for cross-compatibility checking, I used Netscape and if the web
> site wouldn't work, it had better have one really good reason I would
> want to visit it.
>
> To make a web page that would display even close to identical in both
> Netscape 4.7 and IE you would have to do browser checking and cheat and
> add "nudges" to all positioning elements on the page and also refrain
> from using some very nice features such as odd point and pixel sizes for
> fonts.
>
> Plus Netscape 4.7 had a huge GDI resource leak and corruption on the
> non-NT based operating systems...to the point that the mozilla folks
> released a kewl GDI viewer tool to help debug it.
>
> Mozilla 1.7.13 works as well or better than Netscape 4.7 ever did and
> can view HTML mail as something resembling text for those who have such
> a problem expressing themselves that they must use pictures, fonts, etc.
> rather than simply learning how to write. It has the added advantage of
> fully supporting *compliant* CSS and HTML, plus you can put a content
> header on your pages to get a quirks mode that is reasonably close to
> old 4.x Netscape.
>
> Seamonkey suite is coming along, although I personally use the latest
> builds off the alpha branch as being just a tad less buggy than their
> released versions.
>
> Mike Romain proclaimed:
>
> > The netscape browser 4.7x is now useless because everyone is using the
> > newer microcrap that refuses to talk to it. I just have mine set for a
> > blank page on start.
> >
> > Same for the 4.7x email. If someone using the new microcrap html code
> > sends you an email it will be blank in the body. Billy boy decided if
> > you don't use his crap, then you don't deserve email. You can view i
> > using the 'page source' in the View box.
> >
> > I still use 4.79 for newsgroups, but have the latest 'anniversary'
> > edition of the browser.
> >
> > Mike
> > 86/00 CJ7 Laredo, 33x9.5 BFG Muds, 'glass nose to tail in '00
> > 88 Cherokee 235 BFG AT's
> > Canadian Off Road Trips Photos: Non members can still view!
> > Jan/06 http://www.imagestation.com/album/pi...?id=2115147590
> > (More Off Road album links at bottom of the view page)
> >
> > John Murphy wrote:
> >
> >>>OK Bill. I got the 4.7 loaded and the NG running fine, Thanks. Very
> >>>strange, but when netscape loads the homepage, it is really messd up.
> >>>That doesnt matter, just irratating, Maybe I can fix it when I find
> >>>some more time.
> >>
> >>John in Vegas

Re: Hey Bill Huges
 

I just want to click and use.

Lon wrote:

> Internet Exploder is a bit more CSS and HTML compliant than Netscape 4.7
> ever was, even if IE did then go on to add all sorts of "features" to
> allow attackers to take total control of your computer without your
> knowledge [oh, say as recently as this week]. No, I never used IE
> except for cross-compatibility checking, I used Netscape and if the web
> site wouldn't work, it had better have one really good reason I would
> want to visit it.
>
> To make a web page that would display even close to identical in both
> Netscape 4.7 and IE you would have to do browser checking and cheat and
> add "nudges" to all positioning elements on the page and also refrain
> from using some very nice features such as odd point and pixel sizes for
> fonts.
>
> Plus Netscape 4.7 had a huge GDI resource leak and corruption on the
> non-NT based operating systems...to the point that the mozilla folks
> released a kewl GDI viewer tool to help debug it.
>
> Mozilla 1.7.13 works as well or better than Netscape 4.7 ever did and
> can view HTML mail as something resembling text for those who have such
> a problem expressing themselves that they must use pictures, fonts, etc.
> rather than simply learning how to write. It has the added advantage of
> fully supporting *compliant* CSS and HTML, plus you can put a content
> header on your pages to get a quirks mode that is reasonably close to
> old 4.x Netscape.
>
> Seamonkey suite is coming along, although I personally use the latest
> builds off the alpha branch as being just a tad less buggy than their
> released versions.
>
> Mike Romain proclaimed:
>
> > The netscape browser 4.7x is now useless because everyone is using the
> > newer microcrap that refuses to talk to it. I just have mine set for a
> > blank page on start.
> >
> > Same for the 4.7x email. If someone using the new microcrap html code
> > sends you an email it will be blank in the body. Billy boy decided if
> > you don't use his crap, then you don't deserve email. You can view i
> > using the 'page source' in the View box.
> >
> > I still use 4.79 for newsgroups, but have the latest 'anniversary'
> > edition of the browser.
> >
> > Mike
> > 86/00 CJ7 Laredo, 33x9.5 BFG Muds, 'glass nose to tail in '00
> > 88 Cherokee 235 BFG AT's
> > Canadian Off Road Trips Photos: Non members can still view!
> > Jan/06 http://www.imagestation.com/album/pi...?id=2115147590
> > (More Off Road album links at bottom of the view page)
> >
> > John Murphy wrote:
> >
> >>>OK Bill. I got the 4.7 loaded and the NG running fine, Thanks. Very
> >>>strange, but when netscape loads the homepage, it is really messd up.
> >>>That doesnt matter, just irratating, Maybe I can fix it when I find
> >>>some more time.
> >>
> >>John in Vegas