Why does Netscape suck so bad?

[Jake Bunce]

It seems to me that Netscape kinda sucks.

[thetakerfan]

yes, NS does suck, but SOME of the probs can be blamed on the webmaster. If your code isn't exactly right(especially tables), it won't work right in NS. Other than that, its all NS' fault. It doesn't allow all kinds of things that IE does, and forces webmasters to take on necessary work arounds just to make the page look descent, don't ever try using CSS for NS

[Paulie]

It has been my experience that...
Netscape wants properly coded html... especially 6.0;
unescaped tags, improperly nested tags and tables, and improperly written style sheets all cause problems with Netscape. Netscape 6.0 is very fussy; and VBulletin may/does not function properly with Netscape 6.0, that is unless you fix all the little html faux paus, including the style sheet implementation.. based on how you have changed the templates... your pages must be in line with specific DTDs... time to start validating your pages and style sheets. This is what I have experienced, your results may be different

[Kier]

If I had a some money for every time I screamed 'god damn i hate you netscape' at my monitor i would probably be in a position to pay someone else to code pages for the god awful thing...

And as for NS6... what a complete farce. I have never seen such a cobbled-together layout engine as Gecko, it really is satan's gift to web developers.

god damn i hate you netscape!!!!

[SonnetCelestial]

:rolls eyes:

don't get me started!

[Zecherieh]

I love Netscape - what else can keep me up all hours of the night reworking a perfectly good webpage that works just fine on my computer

Until I pull up that other browser sitting in the corner collecting dust

[Sharg]

With Netscape, I loose 1/3 of my time trying to have things look as they SHOULD.
I hate it.

[thetakerfan]

I don't understand why people still use it
unless you have to, I see no reason to use NS

[Zecherieh]

Originally posted by thetakerfan
I don't understand why people still use it
unless you have to, I see no reason to use NS

Good question, I have a couple of regs at my forum that use it, and for the life of me I do not understand - I even have told them that things will appear better on the board and the site in IE - but they persist and keep using their garbage browser

[Sharg]

I know why.
People love to feel martyrs.

[Dark_Wizard]

I don't even bother to make my site NS compliant anymore....not worth the extra work. I also monitor my stats and see that 99% of all the visits are from IE users...the rest can jump on the bandwagon or go somewhere else!

[thetakerfan]

when I code the site, I try not to do anything that i know NS won't support properly, but I don't go out of my way to make it look good in NS, not anymore
Its definately not worth the time and effort

The only reason I've ever come up with is that IE crashes too often, but its still a better browser. I mean, its MS, so can we really expect it not to crash?

[Sharg]

The only reason I've ever come up with is that IE crashes too often

By using my browser at least 7 hours a day at minimum.... it NEVER crashes. Never. Or at least on some very very rare occasion when visiting some javascript intensive sites.
Its Iexplorer of course, and I often have 5-8 browser window opened.

[PeF]

Yesterday IE crashed me the first time on a site full of javascript. I've never experienced any problems with IE.

I think yesterday was released Netscape 6.01. I dunno what changes are included but I suppose they won't be so significiant to change browser or even better to finally say "hurray, they did something for webmasters, at last".

[thetakerfan]

me IE freezes all the time, on all of my computers