From: ahoward <ahoward@...>
Date: 2003-02-21T13:00:30+09:00
Subject: [OT] Re: rubygarden html madness

On Fri, 21 Feb 2003 mgushee@havenrock.com wrote:

> Most likely the strangeness is due to the site's use of CSS, which Netscape 4.x
> doesn't handle very well (in fact, there are certain perfectly legal and straightforward
> combinations of HTML and CSS that cause Netscape 4.x to *crash*).

i suspected as much... 4.77 and 4.78.

> You have two options. First, upgrade to a modern browser that can handle CSS
> properly. Mozilla is the best in that regard ... or you could try Galeon,
> which is basically the Mozilla backend with a more streamlined GUI. You do
> need a certain amount of computing power to run those, though ... I'd say at
> least a Pentium II-200 with 128MB of RAM. You can still run Mozilla with
> less, but it's a pretty painful experience.

pretty funny you mention that, evey one in my dept has been complaining about
the slowness of mozilla and/or galeon on rh 8.0 and this is on very fast
machines so i don't think i'll switch!

> Opera is also pretty good with CSS (it ought to be, since its creator wrote
> the CSS spec). But you either have to pay for it or put up with ads on the
> toolbar, and it doesn't handle East Asian languages (in case you care about
> that--I do).

i did look into this - isn't the linux impl java?

> If you really need or want to continue browsing with Netscape 4, you can try
> turning off CSS (see Edit -> Preferences -> Advanced). That will make a lot
> of sites look ugly, but they should mostly be readable.

good advice.  funny thing is that ruby garden could easily get by w/o CSS...

> Hope this helps.

yup.  thanks.

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> There sure do seem to be a lot of Rubyists in these parts!
> --
> Matt Gushee
> Englewood, CO USA

you too... what are using ruby for?


-a

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