Ahh... did I tell you I use Mozilla now?

Skip the rest. The junk mail control is especially good. I’l add information on this matter later.

About Values

The good thing about Netscape Navigator is that it forces the programmer not to make any mistake. Otherwise it shows some interesting things on the screen one would never expect. In a few, but more serious cases, it simply crashes. So I consider my Netscape 4.7 most useful for testing.

On the other hand’s side: Netscape 7.0 is no better. Am I wrong? Well...

These are the Pros and Cons of Netscape 7.0

What’s Better?

CSS formatting of anchors. Now there’s the real hover you were missing using Netscape 4.7. Unfortunately, any anchor gets its own hover, so some extra-programming for non-hrefs is required.

What’s Worse?

There’re two ways of using Netscape 7.0.
a) Slowing down the system startup significantly (that’s a very good opportunity to have a tea)
b) Slowing down the startup of Netscape 7.0

That makes me think of Internet Explorer.
Is this the reason why system startup of Windows is so slow that you might have a tea also?

Furthermore, although the settings of Netscape 7.0 clearly allow access to the status area, this browser (unlike its ancestor 4.7) won’t show there what I intended it to.

And still, however, Internet Explorer is my favourite for HTML programming, ’cos if you wanna see the source, IE presents it directly in the text editor. That’s a most convenient feature.

Handiwork

This site is entirely typed by hand (character-by-character), sometimes assisted by more advanced technologies, (such as copy-and-paste and the likes). But everything that is to be copied had to be typed before.

I’m quite careful to type everything correctly.

Unfortunately, that doesn’t necessarily mean that everything is actually typed correctly.

So, if you encounter a bug, please don’t cry, but give me a short note about it, please.

Compatibility

To keep my homepages compatible to any browser and (if possible) to the suggestions of the W3 consortium has always been my intention. But, on the other hand’s side, we’ve to make choices.

This site runs quite well with Internet Explorer 5.0. It is also tested with Netscape 4.7 and, most recently, it was adjusted to fit the needs of Netscape 7.0, too.

Netscape 4.7 doesn’t support as much CSS as the other browsers do. But it still looks OK.

Since I have neither Opera, nor any other operating system than Windows 95/98/00 tested so far, I have little idea about whether or not this site works in such different environments.

(I’ve been told recently this site works properly with Netscape on a Macintosh. The version either of which remains unknown.)

Techniques Used

This site uses some plain HTML (including frames, unavoidably written in invalid HTML style), an ever increasing amount of CSS, and it is essentially dependent on JavaScript. It must look somewhat horrifying with JavaScript disabled...

It should run with Internet Explorer if you haven’t a much too old version. If you’re using Netscape, depending on version number, not all the features may work properly. But that’s a little bit more than provided at many other sites, after all.