siani wrote:
> Tiny Human Ferret wrote:
>
>> siani wrote:
>>
>>> the colours and all are the same in IE6 and Mozilla (on pc), but the
>>> main body text appears below and the the right of the wee box on the
>>> left in IE, rather than alongside. in Mozilla, the box on the left
>>> and the titles stay in place, and only the main body text scrolls,
>>> but in IE it is all one solid piece and all scrolls. make sense? i
>>> could put screenshots on photobucket or something if that'd help?
>>
>>
>>
>> Does anyone still use IE6? ;)
>
>
> yes. me. :P
>
> well, to be fair, i only use it for crappy sites which only work in ie.
>
> i think it's the version that we got with win2k pro, so i'd imagine
> quite a lot of people use it still, really.
>
> the page was still completely readable, so i wouldn't worry... but then
> i *like* old text-based sites. anyone else got a newer version
> installed to try?
Give this a try with a text-only browser; I use `lynx` which is
incredibly standard, if I recall correctly it was the original
non-Mosaic browser for the WWW. Hell, it was my first introduction to
the WWW, a dial-up to University of Colorado and the shell was `lynx`
reading Gopher, if you can remember that far. No WWW yet at the time. ;)
BTW supposedly someone's done a next-generation Veronica, and if you
remember the first generation of Veronica, you probably remember the
first generation of Archie. You may even remember WAIS[1], which I
suppose was the predecessor of Altavista or Google.
The site is very `lynx`-friendly, CSS isn't Frames. `lynx` doesn't even
see the CSS so far as I know, and also the particular construction
completely avoids the use of Tables.
Ref:
1. I used to run a WAIS index and a z3950 server, if anyone on earth
remembers that. The WAIS ("wide area information service", a sort of
gopher/archie/veronica adjunct) service was actually not a bad idea or
implimentation for the time, it's just that the index was all in live
memory and damn did that suck if you weren't rich, or wanted to do
anything else on the same machine.
--klaatu, feeling very old after a decade on the InterNet
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