How hard would it be for us to have and maintain a "lynx-friendly"
html, and serve it to old browsers like this? It seems a shame to
give people something that causes headaches, even if they really
really should upgrade, because maybe they can't upgrade for some
reason (poverty, for example).
Brion Vibber wrote:
In addition to the Safari fiasco a couple days ago,
I've recently
received a complaint that Wikipedia blocks Netscape 3.0. The last entry
in the block list was for "^Mozilla/3.0", which blocks Netscape 3.0 and
some WebTV and similar browsers.
Now, I seem to remember blocking "Mozilla/3.01 (compatible;)" back in
the day, but never just plain "Mozilla/3.0". I've changed it for now to
that...
Incidentally, I managed to get Netscape Gold 3.04 up and running... It
does sort of work on Wikipedia. Sort of. :)
It gives a JavaScript error on every page view; a syntax error for a
regexp used for the toolbar code I believe. It doesn't support PNG
images, and the sidebar shows at the bottom of the page... also it
doesn't grok UTF-8. It seems to have caching problems on default
settings and doesn't reload pages automatically after edit. But, pages
(in English at least) are legible and it understands virtual hosts.
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)
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