posted on December 16, 2001 07:46:45 AM new
I just downloaded the latest version of Netscape 6.2.1 and noticed that it has some rather strange renditioning of web pages. This wasn't true of 6.1. Anyone else try this out. It looks positively yucko on Half. Very bizarre.
posted on December 16, 2001 11:07:08 AM new
No, haven't noticed the weird renditions on 6.2, but it is very slow loading and the interface is a bit strange although I'm getting used to it by now.
On the plus side, it seems to hang less frequently with AM and other web aps.
Terry
posted on December 16, 2001 04:22:24 PM new
You probably aren't using the Quick Launch feature, it slows your boot time a lttle bit, but keeps the necessary features loaded so startup is fast whenver you use Netscape.
Because existing content on the web is not standards-compliant or would appear in unintended ways on a standards-compliant browser, Mozilla handles some content in a backwards compatible way and some content according to standards.
There are two modes used by the layout engine: quirks mode and strict mode. In Quirks mode, layout emulates nonstandard behavior in Navigator 4 and MSIE for Windows that is required not to break existing content on the Web. In Strict mode (also knows as standards mode) the behavior is (hopefully) the behavior described by the HTML and CSS specifications.
Basically, if this is your problem, the webpage designer is using the wrong DTD or DTD plus url in a wrong way...
