Userland’s new pages are Netscape-killers
The newly redesigned Scripting News and other Userland sites are truly causing me problems. Dave mentioned that they tend to screw around with Netscape 4.x browsers. It has something to do with tables, but I've been too lazy to actually look at the code to find out if it's nested tables that's causing all the trouble. How my teetering Netscape reacts to the new Userland sites is a little unusual, also. Instead of crashing, which it does plenty of, it just briefly freezes up. Not that that's not annoying and can lead to a panic reaction of rapidly trying to switch between open windows and leaving the toublesome site (which does crash Netscape). Dave says I should update my browser, but I can't! We've had IE4 on this computer, but that totally messed up everything. It makes changes to Windows and made running every program slow. We had to format our hard drive and reinstall everything. I've laso tried to update Netscape, also unsuccessfully. The problem, of course, lies in that our computer is too old. We actually have another newer computer, but we can't switch to that until we get a new Internet connection. We have an ISDN line, but the ISDN card is so problematic that installing it correctly is a near impossibility. It's a matter of trial and failure. Even the computer repair shop people can't install the card correctly. In the end it's always a matter of luck. So what we're waiting for is a new Internet connection. And that has its own catches.
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