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Re: Browser Usage
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lugnet.general
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Sun, 29 Jul 2001 15:59:43 GMT
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MTIMM@spamcakeUSINTERNET.COM
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On Sun, 29 Jul 2001 19:37:47 GMT, "James Stacey" <James@minifig.co.uk>
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> It's the old sticky question. The first thing you learn when designing
> Websites is that Netscape has an ugly filter. Your site can be as pretty as
> can be in IE, Opera or anything else but looks dog ugly in Netscape.
> Netscape used to be my favorate browser, but 4.7 was soooo bad, and 6 isn't
> much better (IMO). As far as building a site that everyone can see I try to
> make it look good in IE and passable at least in Netscape. According to my
> viewing stats about 80% of people that go too the site are using IE, 17%
> Netscape, and the rest is the small ones (opera is actually 3rd at 1%)
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> so when it comes down to it you have to design your site for the people
> going too it. It's gotta look good in IE, but it must work in Netscape
> (almost 20% is a lot of people) but its not worth stressing too much to make
> it look fantastic in both
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> Hope this helps
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> James
> www.minifig.co.uk
One of the things here is, if Opera says "Hi I'm an Opera browser" a
lot of commercial sites go "Hey we have a problem here". My copy of
Opera is set to ID itself as either Mozilla 5.0 or a version on NS
depending upon where I have been browsing lately, and if I got a error
on the Mozilla ID. Opera can ID itself as close to dozen different
browsers but there are brain dead websites that will not let anything
but certain browsers see the content (coughLEGO.comcough) although
some give you a "Need to be able to set cookies" error, when cookies
are enabled, change the browser ID and nothing else, it "magically"
works......
Mike
--
All other themes are just spare parts for Castle! :^)
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| It's the old sticky question. The first thing you learn when designing Websites is that Netscape has an ugly filter. Your site can be as pretty as can be in IE, Opera or anything else but looks dog ugly in Netscape. Netscape used to be my favorate (...) (23 years ago, 29-Jul-01, to lugnet.general)
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