Bill, you figured out my problem a few yrs back about connecting to the group on netscape. I did netscape on this puter and they want $$ for me to come here. I am getting on by googgle now and I dont like it. I like the old way, HATE this way. How do I do it?
John in Vegas
Wow! Long time no hear. =)
-jenn
Well Its been a while and I got back into dirt biking, trying to get the kids involved in something. Been a while since Ive been able to go JEEPIN, bummed about that. Bill I will try all that when I have a little time. I dont know if I had this the last time I was on, but I think you might enjoy it.
Nope, the Trash is gone, but not forgotten
John in Vegas
Hey is Jerry still around, or did Bill chase him away?
Cool!
But there are lots of fond memories!
-jenn
John in Vegas
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 >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 > The netscape browser 4.7x is now useless because everyone is using the
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.
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That's what I do. It is a decent newsgroup program.
Mike
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