[lug] Netscape6/Mozilla

[Riggs, Rob]

I've come upon a *very* annoying defect in Mozilla/Netscape6 -- relative
URLs that specify the protocol (e.g. https:/cgi-bin/foo) are treated as
absolute URLs, and the first part of the path expanded with www. and .com.
(Imagine all of the traffic posted to www.cgi-bin.com.) Now, according to
the spec this is not legal, but it is convention. Netscape4 and IE both
treat them as relative URLs and many web sites use them. I'm affected almost
daily by this deficiency. The sad part is that this is one of Mozilla's most
frequent bug reports, yet they still mark it as WONTFIX.

Because of this bug, I do have Netscape4 and Mozilla (AKA Netscape6)
installed on my box. They work fine together with some caveats. The biggest
caveat is with local mail folders -- Mozilla can import all Netscape4
mailboxes, but they will not share them. If you alternate which mail client
you use, your local folders will not remain consistent (i.e. some of you
mail will be in Mozilla folders and some in Netscape folders). 

-Rob

-----Original Message-----
From: BOF [mailto:bof at pcisys.net]
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2001 5:31 AM
To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
Subject: Re: [lug] ZAxisMapping & Netscape


Hello,

I have been running both under Slackware 8.0 for about two weeks now, so 
far without problems. Netscape 4.78 is in /usr/local/bin/netscape, and 
6.2 is in /home/me/netscape.

For that matter, I will plug Netscape 6.2, for it looks like they 
finally got it right this time. While it's not quite as fast as 4.78, it 
does have some nice features, including the ability to handle multiple 
mail addresses as different accounts (something that the Windows version 
has been doing for years). The layout of the features is slightly 
different, and, for example, I find myself moving the mouse to the old 
location to access bookmarks--- an annoyance, but retrainable with time 
and use.  The only bug that I have found to date is that the print 
feature does not print the first page of a document when told, just a 
blank page.

BOF

Jeff wrote:

>Does anybody know if it's possible to run both version 4.x and 6.x of
>Netscape?  All of my mail is on Netscape and the last version of
>Netscape 6.x I saw, I didn't care for.  I just want to try it out for
>now...
>


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