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Re: [hobbit] Netscape 4.7 and Hobbit Monitor 4.0.4
- To: hobbit (at) hswn.dk
- Subject: Re: [hobbit] Netscape 4.7 and Hobbit Monitor 4.0.4
- From: henrik (at) hswn.dk (Henrik Stoerner)
- Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 18:19:17 +0200
- References: <42B82888.9000306@lmco.com>
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On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 10:47:36AM -0400, Michael Nemeth wrote:
> When using Netscape 4.7x or 4.8 pages are not rendering correctly; no
> menu bar at top, pages with graphs have all
> the magifier glass group at top and sometimes graphs are missing.
> If there is a browser prerequiste , what is it? And where is it stated.
>
> Netscape 4.X is our unix standard on our deveoptment side with no hope
> of changing that!
Sorry to hear that, but I'm afraid Netscape 4.x is just too old for the
web these days.
The Hobbit webpages are all HTML 4.0 compliant - they do use
stylesheets, javascript and probably also some other minor things that
have appeared in HTML since the Netscape 4.x days. (What HTML version
would that support - 3.2 ? Or only 2.x?)
Not that HTML 4.0 is brand new - it was published on 24 Dec. 1999.
I managed to dig up a Windows PC with an old netscape browser installed,
and yes - there are some problems with it. I don't quite understand why
the graphs are missing on the status pages - they show up OK on the
"trends" page.
But frankly, since I cannot even run this browser on my current platform
I am not willing to spend much time figuring out where it breaks. Feel
free to look into it on your own - you may be able to fix most of the
breakage by modifying the header/footer files in the server/web/
directory.
Regards,
Henrik