Comments on: Mozilla 1.5 Out / Website http://robert.accettura.com/blog/2003/10/15/mozilla-15-out-website/ Robert Accettura's Personal Blog on Web Development and Tech Fri, 10 Feb 2012 04:31:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: pascal http://robert.accettura.com/blog/2003/10/15/mozilla-15-out-website/comment-page-1/#comment-763 pascal Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://robert.accettura.com/archives/2003/10/15/mozilla-15-out-website/#comment-763 Netscape 4 users are not the Mozilla target, they count for less than 1% of total users and people who still use are mostly people who can't upgrade because their harware is not fast enough for modern browsers. Having a crappy website because of NS4 does not make sense. The new website will also help Technology evangelists to promote standards, difficult to say to webdesigners that they should support current standards (and consecuently gecko) when your own website is coded like in 96 Netscape 4 users are not the Mozilla target, they count for less than 1% of total users and people who still use are mostly people who can’t upgrade because their harware is not fast enough for modern browsers. Having a crappy website because of NS4 does not make sense. The new website will also help Technology evangelists to promote standards, difficult to say to webdesigners that they should support current standards (and consecuently gecko) when your own website is coded like in 96

]]> By: Eric Hodel http://robert.accettura.com/blog/2003/10/15/mozilla-15-out-website/comment-page-1/#comment-764 Eric Hodel Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://robert.accettura.com/archives/2003/10/15/mozilla-15-out-website/#comment-764 Looking at the site in NS4, it really isn't all that bad. Perhaps it could be made a little better with a dirt-simple style sheet, but I don't really see the need. Its very easy to navigate around in using NS4. (Remember this is XHTML1.0 served as text/html, not XHTML1.1, served with an XML mime type.) Looking at the site in NS4, it really isn’t all that bad. Perhaps it could be made a little better with a dirt-simple style sheet, but I don’t really see the need. Its very easy to navigate around in using NS4. (Remember this is XHTML1.0 served as text/html, not XHTML1.1, served with an XML mime type.)

]]> By: Tristan Nitot http://robert.accettura.com/blog/2003/10/15/mozilla-15-out-website/comment-page-1/#comment-765 Tristan Nitot Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://robert.accettura.com/archives/2003/10/15/mozilla-15-out-website/#comment-765 I am the person who coded the new pages (the design is not mine though, it's Dave Shea's, of CSS Zen Garden fame). I agree with what Pascal said: XHTML 1.0 is fine when served as text/html. And it's time to move on and adopt XHTML, CSS and accessibility. Also, being the author of <a href="http://devedge.netscape.com/viewsource/2003/why-web-standards/">http://devedge.netscape.com/viewsource/2003/why-web-standards/</a> , I tend to do what I preach :-) Whether the final version of the site will be with XHMTL or HTML is still to be seen, anyway. But it would not solve the issue you raise, as it will sport CSS anyway, and it would not change the Netscape 4 users' experience in any way. I am the person who coded the new pages (the design is not mine though, it’s Dave Shea’s, of CSS Zen Garden fame).

I agree with what Pascal said: XHTML 1.0 is fine when served as text/html. And it’s time to move on and adopt XHTML, CSS and accessibility. Also, being the author of http://devedge.netscape.com/vi.....standards/ , I tend to do what I preach :-)

Whether the final version of the site will be with XHMTL or HTML is still to be seen, anyway. But it would not solve the issue you raise, as it will sport CSS anyway, and it would not change the Netscape 4 users’ experience in any way.

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