Al Castanoli (afn22800@usenet.freenet.ufl.edu) wrote: >Mike Czaplinski (mike.czaplinski@washingtondc.attgis.com) wrote: >: jeffg@wco.com (Jeff Gerstmann) wrote: >: > >: > >: > Netscape is only spooky when you stare at the breathing N for more than >: > an hour. I hurt my face doing that yesterday. The only thing that stops >: > face pain is a complete set of those McDonalds basketball/Looney Tunes cups. >: > >: NO...NETSCAPE IS.......ALL >: NETSCAPE IS.......PERFECT..... I HATE Netscape. Netscape is the single most evil product ever designed, implemented, discussed, envisioned, programmed, or otherwise created for any computer ever built. Well ok I'm just pissed because yesterday when I tried to use it it said "HAHAHAHA This copy of netscape has EXPIRED, you IDIOT! While it is still perfectly capable of functioning, we felt like being cold heartless bastards and making you download a brand new version which fixes the bug that sometimes causes a single pixel out of every 2000 documents to be drawn the wrong color. Now please go to ftp.mcom.com and just TRY to get through, we DARE you! You will never make it, we have a 250 user limit and over 10 million people are trying to get the latest Netscape, JUST LIKE YOU. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA ncftp -r won't even help you, it's pointless! LOSER!" At least I kept an old Netscrape 1.0 around for reasons I can't recall (considering I am usually short on disk space, it was a rather odd decision.) which still works, but all the nifty cool HTML extensions in 1.1 don't work with it, and there are a lot of pages using them... all the other suckers in the world didn't realize the thing was going to expire either. Gee THANKS for actually MENTIONING that fact, netscape. Brilliant move, really. I hope your ftp server doesn't crash from the load or anything. Really I do. Anyway, anyone got an alternate site for Nestcrape 1.1b3 or whatever it is, for Linux? Joe
<BLINK> In article <3m4tl5$knt@huron.eel.ufl.edu>, Al Castanoli <afn22800@usenet.freenet.ufl.edu> wrote: >Mike Czaplinski (mike.czaplinski@washingtondc.attgis.com) wrote: >: jeffg@wco.com (Jeff Gerstmann) wrote: >: > Netscape is only spooky when you stare at the breathing N for more than >: > an hour. I hurt my face doing that yesterday. The only thing that stops >: > face pain is a complete set of those McDonalds basketball/Looney Tunes cups. >: > >: >: NO...NETSCAPE IS.......ALL >: >: NETSCAPE IS.......PERFECT..... > >Netscape is an improvement over Mosaic, but the newsreader needs to be >redone. The biggest omission is killfiles, that is unless you actually >READ those Kurt Kobain and Longest Thread Ever(tm) threads. Netscape is an improvement over Mosaic, if you don't mind completely non-standard HTML, and MCOM arrogantly claiming that their extensions, never mind the fact that they completely violate the whole *spirit* of HTML (I offer you <FONT> and <BLINK> as prime examples), are going to be "the next standard". To say nothing of casually opening up umpteen net connections at once to grab inlined images (and ignoring your MAX_CONNECTIONS setting, and MCOM saying they fixed it when they didn't). The only way it wins compared to Mosaic is grabbing the text bit, rendering it complete with links, and *then* grabbing the graphics (and rendering them on the screen so you can see what it's up to). >Lynx may not be so graphically pleasing, but it doesn't have much >trouble running on a 14400 bps modem. Lynx is a fine browser. Now if only we could do something about those people that insist on putting menus in as clickable images, because everyone has a T1, don't they? --Dave -- http://armf18.dow.on.doe.ca:6700/~dbrown/ Dave Brown, sysadmin for Environment Canada. I charge for any unsolicited advertising that appears in any system I administer, at the rate of $200/hr for my time in dealing with the ad (min. 1/2 hr) and $100/kB for storage.
Jesper Nilsson // dat92jni@ludat.lth.se or jesper@df.lth.se