Re: Survey: Do you use Netscape 2.0?


Tue, 7 Nov 1995 10:23:05 GMT

In article <47at0e$7jm@bubba.NMSU.Edu>, jholder@nmsu.edu (John Holder) writes:
|>
|>John looks about worriedly, and asks: "Those of you who use web browsers,
|>which ones do you use? The time has come for me to (finally) HTMLify Jool's
|>FAQ, and I want to know if I should use Netscape 2.0-specific commands
|>(there are a couple i really like), or if I should be a bit more
|>traditional - even supporting Lynx. Or both, somehow."
|>
|>John is here, awaiting your answer.
|>

Definately use only HTML 2.0 for a FAQ. Only about 800f people use
Netscape, and most of those are not Netscape 2.0 yet. What are the other
20upposed to do?

Some HTML 3.0 things implemented in Netscape 2.0 are safe: anything
which appears only as an attribute on a tag eg <P ALIGN=CENTER> is fine
for any browser since ALIGN=CENTER will be ignored by any browser which
doesn't recognise it. Note <P ALIGN=CENTER> and <H1 ALIGN=CENTER> are
from the HTML 3.0 draft standard whereas <CENTER> is just a Netscapism.

If this develops into an HTML discussion would someone redirect it to
comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html please.

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