[2774] in Release_7.7_team
Re: Netscape... and, Athena
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (t. belton)
Thu Jun 7 12:11:43 2001
Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2001 12:11:37 -0400 (EDT)
From: "t. belton" <tbelton@MIT.EDU>
To: Mike Barker <mbarker@mit.edu>
cc: Bill Cattey <wdc@mit.edu>, Theresa M Regan <tregan@mit.edu>, <f_l@mit.edu>,
<release-team@mit.edu>, <lisanti@mit.edu>, <aui@mit.edu>
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At this time Netscape 3 is basically on an "as-is" basis anyhow and the
f-l's, EMCC, etc should not feel that they are under any obligation to
provide support or compatibility for it. There are already many options
and plugins which do not run with it.
It is kept around for the handful of people who, for one reason or
another, cannot or will not run later versions of Netscape. For them it is
the difference between having a puny browser or having no browser, and I
believe they understand that they won't get full app support or bells and
whistles.
-Todd
On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, Mike Barker wrote:
> Actually, I would like to ask that Netscape 3 be removed. As I remember,
> the java support in it isn't, and there are other significant shortcomings
> compared to later versions. As the EMCC is one of the groups that has to
> write things to work with ALL the supported versions, removing old versions
> would be helpful (gives us a narrower group of necessary tests).
>
> Mike
>
> At 10:20 PM 6/6/2001 +0000, Bill Cattey wrote:
> >A pre-emptive strike on closing this issue.
> >
> >I'd said:
> >
> > So yes, Netscape 3 is an "option". Why is this a problem? Should
> > we ask the Faculty Liaison's to remove Netscape 3 from Dash?
> >
> >Theresa:
> >
> >Don't bother thinking about answering my question unless the following
> >answer in unacceptable: (This supplied by Heather Anne during Release
> >Team.)
> >
> >Netscape 3 was originally offered in dash because it was felt that there
> >were users with very old systems who were at that time unable to
> >convert. The plan is to discontinue offering Netscape 3 in the Athena
> >9.0 GNOME panel, but not to bother removing it from the Dash menus.
> >
> >-wdc
>
>
>
