Posted by Andy Dingley on 11/02/84 11:47

On Sat, 29 Apr 2006 13:43:01 +1000, dorayme
<doraymeRidThis@optusnet.com.au> wrote:

>> This was a browser that was capable, but it certainly wasn't robust (or
>> fit for use as a general web-browsing tool - far too many sites killed
>> it dead).
>
>Well, I used it for years on OS 9 and it was very robust, more so
>than any other browser I had. Or I was just lucky?

When you were using it, sites weren't often using the (valid) features
that are now more commonplace. The need to be even vaguely viewable
under IE4 / NS4 limited what features sites tried to make use of. And of
course, widespread CSS knowledge was almost negligible just a few years
ago.

If you try using IE5/Mac today, you'll run into a lot of sites that fail
to render, and badly. The typical failure mode is large blank white
spaces.

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