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Montag Newswire
28 September 2003

The blackout across Italy yesterday shares a common theme with the recent USA blackout: the french.

Industry experts say the US blackout began in that den of cheese-eating-surrender agents to the north, Canada. The Italin blackout has already been pinpointed to have been caused by the failure of powere lines from the occupied German provences of europe (referred to by the UN as france).

Of course, in both cases, the victim was blamed and the so-called french claimed to be misunderstood.

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A word of aggrivation: seems the news services that I have tried have decided to no longer be compatible with Netscape 4.7 or the IE that comes in AOL. Why simple text based news needs to load a plug-in is beyond me. Why Forbs takes 10 min. to load anything but their top-screen splash is equally puzzling. Reiters wins the annoyance award: big ad *covering* the first several paragraphs (in both browsers) and it locks up Netscape 4.7. I am definately on the verge of switching back to Lynx and to hell with this bandwidth/resource hoging crap!

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  • *cough*spelling*cough* ;)

    I concur. I've been noticing it lately too, their cute little flash/javascript/whatever ads covering the text.

    You know what guys? People come to your site to get news, not ads.

    I can count on one finger the number of web ads that I've seen. No, make that two. One, a Yahoo ad that was quite clever with a stick figure guy who dug through his ad to drop down into a picture of Hawaii. It's current, so you might see it somewhere. The second is the ad for the PHP Cruise, and the only

    • How the hell am I supposed to spell them correctly if their pages won't load?

      I refuse to enter the gulag of the English Department!
    • I do agree that Yahoo ad was pretty clever... though it bothered me before I even knew what it was. I would click on the whitespace between the two "ads" to change focus, or whatever, and the page would redirect to the ad's target! Aargh!
      I finally realized what was going on when I eventually saw the little dude fall... now I know not to click there.
  • Nutscrape 4.x has always been a slow, bloated, bug-ridden piece of crap. Mozilla, OYOH, has always run well wherever I've run it (Win32, Linux, Mac OS X). It implements more of the standards (HTML, CSS, etc.) properly, and it is being actively maintained.

    There's a reason why the Mozilla team chucked the Nutscrape source code overboard, even though they had access to it.

    Ye shall know the lizard [mozilla.org], and the lizard shall set you free.

    • I always hated Netscape 4 - it was trying to be IE. And failing... Yuck. I used Netscape 3 until about a year ago...
    • No.

      Everythign worked fine until all of these news sites hired the web brats, then standards went to crap. If it won't render in Netscape it is not written worth a crap.
      • Lets be honest, Netscape 4 draws about 12% of the hits on our network and we still distribute it on the new customer cd's and several internal users refuse to upgrade. When we went through the redesign from tables/html4 to XHTML1/CSS + NS4 compat last year I spent one month working on the templates, one month tracking netscape bugs, and one month converting the site to the new templates, want to take a guess which month I was drinking a fifth of beam a week to calm down after work? NS4 needs to die, now!
      • Take it from someone who recently switched from Netscape 4.x on his UNIX/Linux boxes to Mozilla/Netscape 7, once you switch you won't want to go back. I've even switched to Mozilla on Windows, where I'd long been content to use whatever the latest version of IE was.

        If nothing else the page scaling (for enlarging 4pt unreadable text) and popup blocking are worth it alone.
      • If it won't render in Netscape it is not written worth a crap.

        Netscape 4.x is the most bug ridden piece of crap ever distributed to the masses. I write all of my pages as valid XHTML. That NS can usually handle, but when you start doing anything meaningful with CSS it all goes down the drain. I concur with the other posts. If you don't want to use IE, atleast check out a newer version of Mozilla.
        • I hate CSS too!
          • eh, to each their own, but in my opinion CSS is good stuff. Of course I depend on web development for my check twice a month. If not I'd probably with everything was just text too.

          • I hate CSS too!

            What's wrong with CSS? It's great for keeping layout information separate from content. It allows you to use HTML as a markup language (its original intent) instead of having to coerce it into being a page-layout language.

            If you use HTML and CSS together, you can produce a webpage that has everything where you want it, but it'll gracefully degrade for display on more limited devices. Try viewing my site (for instance) with IE, Mozilla, and Lynx. IE and Mozilla give you nearly the sa

            • See! I told you so!
            • The problem really comes down to when you can drop those 1% of users. For most personal or low traffic sites, it is no problem at all, but as the number of page views increases that 1% makes for more and more unhappy users.

              Right now I'm working on what will be a VERY high traffic site (Think international event that is held every four years). The current design of the page has been created using XHTML 1.0 Transitional and CSS. It looks great in almost everything other than Netscape 4. And really it wou

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