Netscape 6 Release

TECHMAN007 · Dec 6, 2000

I was just wondering if anyone has gotten this to install and start properly? I have installed it 4 times on 3 different machines using both the interactive download/install and the download then install version. Both crash before profile manager opens.

Anyone else have the problem?

Thanks

ramino · Dec 17, 2000

I have installed Netscape 6 but have some reservations. I posted two items today on tek-tips concerning shortcuts. I had some anomalies yesterday when Netscape was associated with .JPG files (a nightmare). I solved that problem by deleting a file type related to Mozilla. Also, to backup my MAIL files I found that Netscape 6 has an entirely different location for these files.

Otherwise it works okay. Don't see the real benefit yet. Incidentally I used the CD for installation.

AND, I also had some problems uninstalling. You have to search for the .exe file on the CD. Installation routine didn't come up automatically.

arlequin · Dec 27, 2000

hey I have problems with the Netscape email client....

does anyone have had any problem out there ? Arlequín
arlequin@montevideo.com.uy

http://www.arlequinadas.com

Sensibilium · Jan 9, 2001

I find the Netscape email client too slow for use - especially when dealing with Newsgroups...

As for the browser itself. Well, it looks nice, but it seems slower at loading pages than v4, and when using the CSS A:hover and the onmouseover function together, the Hover effect does not work.

Is that bad programming on my part as Netscape seem to say or are they just making up their standards as they go along?

EG:
<STYLE>
A:hover
{ text-decoration: none }
</STYLE>

<A HREF="

http://sensibilium.com/ots/misc/interview1.asp"

onmouseover="window.status='The OTS Interview'; return true" onmouseout="window.status='';return true">Interview</a>

The above hover effect does not work, yet the status bar is correctly displayed. Bad programming? I think not!

ahdkaw
ahdkaw@ots.zzn.com

http://sensibilium.com/

'If anythign can go wrong, it will'

Trevman · Jan 10, 2001

A couple things:

1. Yeah Netscape 6.0 is a bloated POS, If I were you I would download Mozilla 0.7 that was relased today -- much quicker and less buggy. Goto

http://www.mozilla.org

2. Your code has a flaw. Don't put a return true on the onMouseover. Furthermore, you not being standards complient.

this code works:

<html>
<head>
<title>
example
</title>

<STYLE type="text/css">

</STYLE>
</head>
<body>

<A HREF="

http://sensibilium.com/ots/misc/interview1.asp"

onMouseover="window.status='The OTS Interview';" onMouseout="window.status=''; return true">Interview</a>
</body>
</html>

All the standards are available at

http://www.w3.org

-- and Netscape 6 supports almost 100% of HTML 4.01, CSS1, DOM1 and XML 1.0.

Trevman · Jan 10, 2001

Nevermind you need that return true to have the status bar update. You could always do:

<A HREF="

http://sensibilium.com/ots/misc/interview1.asp"

onMouseover="window.status='The OTS Interview'; this.style.textDecoration = 'none'; return true;" onMouseout="window.status=''; this.style.textDecoration = 'underline'; return true">Interview</a>

You should report that bug at

http://bugzilla.mozilla.org

and it will get fixed eventually. =)

nobra · Jan 10, 2001

I have a web-shop installed on my page, which uses a lot of Java-script. Just to be sure, that everybody is able to place an order, I installed NS6.

At first glance, everything seemed okay, I liked to see that NS6 is able to interpret a fixed background via stylesheet, very good.

But the functionality of the shop with NS6 is absolutly unpredictable! After reloading the page, buttons dissappeared or just didn't work anymore, and sometimes the whole page was completly messed up, with pics of the main frame showing up in the navigating frame and other strange effects. This phenomenon came up not only with the highly customized shop on my page, but also with the example shops, given by shopfactory, the program I used to built the shop.

You may try it:

http://www.nobra.de/shop/index.html

(don't go there, if you find sextoys offensive, ;-)! )

http://www.3d3.com

(home of shopfactory)

Sensibilium · Jan 11, 2001

Thanks Trevman, I think I'll leave my code as is, I've reported the bug to Netscape (bugzilla told me to report the bug there instead).

I have tried various other ways to try to fix the problem including replacing "return true" to "return false", and changing "window.status" to "self.status", but other problems occur in both IE5 & NS6.

ahdkaw
ahdkaw@ots.zzn.com

http://sensibilium.com/

'If anythign can go wrong, it will'

Guest_imported · May 5, 2001

I have experienced the same difficulties on my site - teensolve.com. Returning true indicates that the event was dealt with, and prevents any further handling. This should only prevent further handling by scripts, however, it also appears to prevent :hover from functioning as well. The bug report is at

http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38380.

It has been marked major severity.

boyfromoz · May 21, 2001

I build websites in DM$, just downloaded NS6. Doesn't see my external style sheet. Shouldn't DM4 be writing code the is standards complient? HAs anyone else had this problem with DM4 css style sheets and NS6?

Why can IE4+ find mys tyle sheets and NS6 not?

And I also have weird things happen with graphics, and I can't get my sounds to play.(attached to buttons).

I h

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