[20734] in Athena Bugs
Re: sun4 9.1.14: mozilla
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (t. belton)
Wed Sep 18 00:20:20 2002
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 00:20:19 -0400 (EDT)
From: "t. belton" <tbelton@MIT.EDU>
To: Ron Hoffmann <hoffmann@MIT.EDU>
cc: <ghudson@MIT.EDU>, <bugs@MIT.EDU>
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Judging from later in the replies, it sounds like you had some mangled
images (an aborted page load for some reason) that forcing a reload fixed.
I would have noticed anything wrong with Google in my Mozilla testing - I
went to it every day.
I agree that Mozilla has problems but I promise you that it is in better
condition than either Netscape 6 or 7. In many cases Netscape has
deliberately disabled or accidentally broken things we needed to customize
the MIT Way. Mozilla lets us do it, though I don't claim it's always
simple to do.
The difficulty with continuing with Netscape 4 is that quite a few sites
see Netscape 4 and refuse to let the user see any content at all - because
of the browser's mostly-nonexistent support for style sheets, among other
things.
I think we have chosen the path that will result in the fewest disgruntled
Unix users, problems notwithstanding.
- Todd
On Tue, 17 Sep 2002, Ron Hoffmann wrote:
> I guess I'd suggest that Mozilla not be made the default
> until a fixed version of it exists. I just went to Google
> and the search result pages look bizarre. The bar at the
> bottom of the page is missing all the graphics.
>
> It seems silly to put out a broken piece of software when
> 1: the older Netscape works and 2: waiting a bit will result
> in a fixed version of the newer browser.
>
> -Ron
>
