For some new stuff that I am writin 1

[CliveC]

For some new stuff that I am writing I have decided to give up on trying to support Netscape 4.x

if (navigator.appVersion.indexOf("4.&quot != -1 &&
navigator.appName.indexOf("Netscape&quot != -1) {
alert("To use this site you must upgrade your browser"
window.self.location='open("upgrade.htm&quot'
} else {
.....
}

In "upgrade.htm", I was going to give a link to MSIE & Netscape, however, do users of AOL need to upgrade to a newer version of AOL or can they just update their browser?

Any other ideas or comments would be appreciated.

 

[xso]

Hi CliveC,

Sorry, I know it's not directly related and it's just a personal opinion, but I would just add links to Opera 6.0 and Mozilla as well. Mozilla deserves a special mention here for the 2 following reasons:
1. Netscape since version 6 is based on Mozilla. However, Mozilla is updated more frequently and for this reason has less bugs than NS 6 (NS6.2.2 was based on Mozilla 0.9.4, when we are now at version 0.9.9 of Mozilla). For the same reason Mozilla has more features than Netscape (like tab browsing);
2. AOL is investigating the use of Mozilla (and its Gecko rendering engine) instead of Internet Explorer for the next version of its browser.

Of course, this is just a thought. Hope this helps though.

Cheers,

xso

 

[CliveC]

Hi xso,

Do you have some links? Do you mean that AOL currently uses IE? I thought they owned Netscape.

 

[xso]

Hi CliveC,

Yes you are right: they DO own Netscape, they watch closely (to say the least) Mozilla development, but they use Internet Explorer up-to-now. However, as I said, now that Mozilla is stable enough and full of features, they would like to use its rendering engine for the next release of their browser. I don't remember any URL right now, but it was a sort of "hot" topic the last month on sites like CNET or ZDNET. A search on Google should give you plenty of results...
I hope this helps.
Cheers,

Xavier

 

[xutopia]

By the way I thought it was decided by AOL Time Warner to use Mozilla from now on. Gary

http://www.xutopia.com

Haran

 

[xso]

Hi xutopia,

As far as I know, it has not been decided yet. They are still testing it. Of course, I hope I'm wrong and they are already bundling a Mozilla-based version ;->

Cheers,

Xavier

 

[CliveC]

I found some useful info on this at

http://www.webstandards.org

I finally decided to do 2 versions and separate them with:

if (!document.getElementById) {
window.self.location="BlandVersion.htm"
} else

 

[xutopia]

good idea blandVersion! hehe Gary

http://www.xutopia.com

Haran