Netscape + Forums = pain in the bottom :)

Canon EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM

12/10/2002 03:55:21 PM · #1

Hello --

Would it be possible please for someone to make the textarea for entering comments and forum posts word wrap in Netscape?

I am using Netscape 7 on OS X and it is just one continuous line of text while typing, which is rather annoying. Especially for people who type a lot. Like me.

Thankyoueversomuch,

Rob

Arachnophilia

Logitech ClickSmart 510

12/10/2002 05:42:35 PM · #2

having designed a web page or two in my time, i've come to realize something.

netscape + anything = a pain in the bottom.

there used to be a joke calling it "nutscrape confabulator" among some web junkies. sometimes the things it does make NO sense. like i've seen it treat code that was cut and pasted to multiple sections of a page differently each time. i've told it to center a block of text ten different ways (and all sorts of combinations of those) before it actually centered it.

netscape was a good browser... back when it was the only one.

now, it's slow, heavy, outdated, and just plain treats code in weird and annoying ways. i can write a normal, basic page in 2 minutes and have ie and opera display it exactly the way i meant it, and then spend four hours getting it to work right with different versions of netscape.

it's just a bad browser. use something else. if you don't like microsoft, i suggest opera.

Message edited by author 2002-12-10 17:43:17.

drewmedia

Canon EOS-300D Rebel

12/10/2002 05:50:42 PM · #3

Hi Rob,

While Arachnophilia is right about NS in general, I did mean for the site to work in NS6+. I'll see what I can do.

Drew

12/10/2002 10:35:15 PM · #4

Originally posted by drewmedia:

Hi Rob,

While Arachnophilia is right about NS in general, I did mean for the site to work in NS6+. I'll see what I can do.

Drew

I've actually found that NS 7 is quite different from the past versions -- especially for the Mac. I am quite aware of the Nutscrape moniker, and have used it quite a few times myself. I also know that there is a way to word wrap textareas and would appreciate whatever you can do.

Thanks,
Rob

Kamlan 28mm F1.4 MF for APS-C

12/10/2002 11:07:54 PM · #5

And, for the record, the top navigation doesn't work in Opera.

Rob

Arachnophilia

Logitech ClickSmart 510

12/10/2002 11:58:44 PM · #6

haha. this is why i use ie -- it works. until it crashes.

ns6/7 (gecko) is a lot better than the previous mozilla engines, but it's still annoying.

Journey

Canon PowerShot G3

12/11/2002 09:19:53 PM · #7

Originally posted by Arachnophilia:

How very right you are - i say this from painful personal experience and from the fun to get web sites to work in NetScape. Netscape used to be great and there are people who refuse to upgrade from Netscape 4. That's a problem when you go through all the trouble to format all your page in CSS2 that won't work in older browsers!

Manic

DJI Mini 3 Pro

12/12/2002 05:58:42 PM · #8

Originally posted by Arachnophilia:

ns6/7 (gecko) is a lot better than the previous mozilla engines, but it's still annoying.

Gecko itself is now a very stable web rendering engine, but the browsers built on top of it can be a bit more hit & miss. The latest Mozilla builds (from the 1.0 release onwards) have been comparitively very stable, if a touch bloated. NS6 was built on moz 0.9.8, and was pretty awful, to be honest. NS7, on the other hand, is built on moz 1.0.1, which is a far superior code branch. However, with the NS builds you've got the AOL-added crap, so its best to stick with real Moz :o)

As for DPC2 with NS (ignoring NS4, since that browser was hideously broken), I've been using all the 1.x releases (1.0 to 1.3alpha) plus a good number of the nightly builds, and through-out the entire DPC2 testing process and release, I've only found one gecko/mozilla-specific bug - the top menubar expands underneath the vertical scrollbar, making the pages all have a horizontal scrollbar. Other than that, I've found DPC to render identically in Moz and IE - which is impressive!

And yes, I'm a moz bugtester, and have been since M14 ;o)

Kamlan 28mm F1.4 MF for APS-C

12/12/2002 06:30:37 PM · #9

OK, I get it. I'll load Mozilla.

But what about the original question? IS IT POSSIBLE TO GET THE TEXTAREAS TO WORD WRAP PLEASE?

LOL

Thankee!!!

Rob

Manic

DJI Mini 3 Pro

12/12/2002 06:37:38 PM · #10

Originally posted by muckpond:

OK, I get it. I'll load Mozilla.

Good, good...

Originally posted by muckpond:

But what about the original question? IS IT POSSIBLE TO GET THE TEXTAREAS TO WORD WRAP PLEASE?

I think this is a mozilla bug, rather than a website issue - I used to have that problem on DPC with the 1.0 and 1.1 moz builds, but it seems to be fixed in the current moz1.3alpha builds (which I'm using now), and its probably fixed in the moz1.2.1 release too, so go download it :o)