http://blog.teledyn.com/node/1753 Comments for "Letting go of Netscape 4" en http://blog.teledyn.com/node/1753 <p>Sent a friend of mine to <a href="//mt/into_the_magic_kingdom">read my book</a> -- he was, I figured, one of maybe two people on the planet who'd really appreciate the work, but I'll never know because he couldn't see it, he couldn't even see my <a href="//mt/archives/001728.html">masterful marketing muck</a> ...</p> <p>He's using Netscape 4.7</p> <p><img src="http://www.nova.edu/help/netscape47/icon.jpg" alt="" class="left" /> It wasn't something I took lightly, but it had to be done: I walked away from supporting Netscape 4.x browsers. It's just so broken in so many ways, a battered battle-axe of the browser-wars, worth a respectful nod, but nonetheless, it's time to let go, move on, life is for living. Some time ago I reasoned that I'm not a commercial site and while I'd like to be read by anyone with an interest, <span class="caps">NS4 </span>support amounted to supporting a completely parallel universe, a universe of broken almost-compliance just close enough to be difficult to subvert. <a href="http://www.google.com/press/zeitgeist.html"><img src="http://www.google.com/press/zeitgeist/jan04_browsers.gif" alt="" height="178" width="320" class="right" /></a></p> <p>Just so you know I'm not pandering to the populists, I've likewise abandoned special considerations for the brokeness of Microsoft browsers both old and new, and for the very same reason. Web standards are good, fair and really very sufficient to the task. And they are standard, <em>do it right the first time</em> and do it only once. If Microsoft <em>pays me</em> for the extra bother to sidestep their programmer errors, then maybe I'll reconsider (ditto for <span class="caps">NS4</span>). </p> <p>In the meantime ...</p> http://blog.teledyn.com/node/1753#comments the skin of culture Thu, 26 Feb 2004 07:02:03 -0500 mrG 1753 at http://blog.teledyn.com