phyllis — Wed, 24 Jan 2001 14:44:47 +0000

Okay, I just found a script that looks like it might work! Thanks for suggesting the site -- I'd heard of it before, but it was a long time ago and I hadn't bookmarked it.

If you go to http://www.bratta.com/dhtml/scripts.asp and choose "coolmenus2" this is a menu script that claims to work with NS6. I haven't installed NS6 yet. I've tried, but it keeps forcing me to download an upgrade -- I don't want an upgrade since I need both NS6 and NS4 to run on this computer. Now for the tedious task of modifying this to look the way I want.

Grrr,
Phyllis

phyllis — Wed, 24 Jan 2001 14:33:22 +0000

Thanks for commiserating!

I'll check out http://www.bratta.com and see what I can find. If I find a similar menu that works, I'll post. My problem is that I have to find something that also works with NS4! Yikes! Because most of our clients are still using NS4, but our company president just upgraded to NS6. What a mess! If I do find a script that works for everything, it's likely to be a mile long. Oh well.

Thanks for the input,
Phyllis

Megan — Tue, 23 Jan 2001 22:28:16 +0000

Yeah.... it sounds like they just wanted to start over. I'm using NS 6 right now (I always use it at work now) though, and I've been surprised at how many sites do seem to be working properly (most of them).

Phyllis - have you tried http://www.bratta.com ? I checked awhile back and he seemed to be upgrading his scripts to work in all three.

Mark Hensler — Tue, 23 Jan 2001 22:14:20 +0000

true....true. they may be fixing things in the long term. I failed to see that. But in the process, they have created a real headache by not making 6 backwards compatable.

If it were me, which it isn't, I would have corrected the problems and kept it backwards compatable for one or two more versions. Then dump the backwards stuff. Just imagin how many sites are malfunctioning now...

Megan — Tue, 23 Jan 2001 22:06:04 +0000

Sigh... poor Netscape. Even though they've finally righted their ways and done what all the web developers have been crying about for years (implemented standards as set out by W3C, not some proprietary crap that makes us have to write different sets of code), everyone still hates them.

The problem isn't that Netscape 6 doesn't abide by standards - they are. The problem is that Netscape 4 didn't (and NS 6 isn't backward compatible). NS6 is trying to fix the problem, not make it worse (and it probably is fixing the problem over the long term) So the old code that detects browsers and uses different code for Netscape and IE won't work. This article says that the IE5 code should work for NS 6 (see - once NS4 is phased out we will only need one set of code for all browsers).

Mark Hensler — Tue, 23 Jan 2001 21:35:35 +0000

I'm gonna say it to make me feel better...
"Just one more reason why Netscape sucks!"

I tell, ya.... NO ONE can abid by a standard!