Forum OpenACS Q&A: Re: OpenACS home page CRASHES Netscape

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Posted by Torben Brosten on
Vadim, have compassion for these negative statements about NN4.7 etc.

As you are aware, NN4.7 is a great canary (to mix metaphors) for sorting out fault tolerant html and css.  Canaries used to be used in mining expeditions to indicate the presence of toxic gases before others are affected.  NN4.7 breaks easily with "toxic" code and works fairly well with fault tolerant code, making it a great canary for testing fault tolerance against a growing list of browsers and browsing applications.

To get NN4.7 working, turn off the CSS rendering in the Preferences area.  Yes, the pure html work isn't quite settled either, but NN4.7 should not crash.

An html/css fix was already submitted before the revisions went live. Priorities to fixing and documenting existing code took priority over fixing the html/css --the site functions on a developing environment afterall.

Torben