JP Stones — Thu, 28 Oct 1999 20:52:00 +0000

Really, where did you get this info?
JP

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Malte — Wed, 27 Oct 1999 21:36:00 +0000

Actually, Microsoft has concrete plans to use Mozilla's layout engine in their next major release of IE. So, an end to Netscape is not in sight at all, however, we get what we all want, two browsers which render one document the same way.

Later,

Malte

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Tue, 26 Oct 1999 03:20:00 +0000

I don't think it will be a shame when Netscape disappears - it will be a step forward in the future of web design. The shame is that Netscape has been around for so long and has failed to make a better product.

JP Stones — Mon, 25 Oct 1999 20:24:00 +0000

I will have to throw myself on the fire here and say that I prefer IE because it is more coderfriendly than Netscape...however I do think it is a shame that Netscape will eventually bite the dust.
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Randall — Mon, 25 Oct 1999 17:00:00 +0000

IE may be a ripoff of Netscape, but it is a much better Ripoff. Everyone claims Netscape Loads Faster, nonsence, it takes twice as long to render on my machine. Netscape was better when Netscape 3 was out. I would not use Netscape all together if I didn't use Linux. Microsoft is developing for their own O/S, so it is a given that their browser is going to function better on it.

As far as support for Stylesheets go, Netscape is much poorer in that regard. You can't do half of whan you can do with IE, and background images look especially bad. I just hope Netscape 5 is better, it is bad enough now that I have to download their whole communicator just to get a browser.

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Malte — Mon, 25 Oct 1999 03:07:00 +0000

Shorty, you got trapped in Microsoft's marketing strategy. Its their policy to integrate technology into their browsers which is not supported by Netscape in order to make Netscape look bad. Its that simple.

And by the way: Since Netscape merged with AOL in the long run AOL will probably use Netscape's browser.

All we can hope is that at some point in time both browsers will have such a high copatibility to w3 standards that everything will look the same in both browsers. CSS is a good step forward, but since its not completely supported by neither browser it doesnt always help a lot. A good application for css is to fix the font size on a web page, and not make it subject to the preferences of the user. That works in all 4.x browsers to my knowledge.

Shorty, if you want a good browser download Netscape's 5 beta @ http://www.mozilla.org and be reminded that if there wouldnt have been Netscape you would not be using the internet today, but probably sneak through some text based microsoft online service with 3 bytes per second which is about the average connection rate to microsoft.com.

Later,

Malte

Ian — Mon, 25 Oct 1999 01:56:00 +0000

Sorry tj,
Yes, John is quite right, I forgot about that part, sorry.
good luck.
Ian

John Pollock — Sun, 24 Oct 1999 00:40:00 +0000

On the EMBED tag, you can hide it using hidden="true" and start it automatically using autostart="true". Example:

tjdubree — Sat, 23 Oct 1999 23:36:00 +0000

I tried EMBED... but all I got was a sound bar on my screen and I had to push the play button to hear anything.

Ian — Sat, 23 Oct 1999 16:51:00 +0000

Hi tj,
As shorty said, Netscpae does not support the hover , it also does not recognize <bgsound...> either, you might like to change that to <embed...> as modern versions of IE and NS support it.

As for the rest of shorty's comments, I have never read such a load of generalized crap in my life, most of your visitors will be IE users and NS users, AOL is down the list and is a very poor browser in most peoples books, so it is hit and miss as far as sound goes there.
good luck