I have been developing a wiki site that needs to display on systems running Windows 2000 running IE and Solaris running Netscape 4.7. The machines running IE work with no problem at all. But the Netscape 4.7 does not display the page so it can be read. I am right now searching the archives to see if anyone else has posted about this problem yet. If you know of any real quick solution to this that have been posted can you please post the date of that post so I can go back to that one and see if the fix works. Thank you very much for your help
On 21/10/05, D & D Player DaGoat dagoat0@gmail.com wrote:
I have been developing a wiki site that needs to display on systems running Windows 2000 running IE and Solaris running Netscape 4.7. The machines running IE work with no problem at all. But the Netscape 4.7 does not display the page so it can be read.
I'm afraid I don't know of any discussion in the archives as such, but the page comparing screenshots of the English Wikipedia [1] suggests that the key problem is that Netscapre 4.x only partially implements CSS, in such a way that modern use of it breaks very easily. Perhaps the answer in your case would be to create a new skin which uses "old fashioned" HTML attributes to do the visual styling, rather than CSS...
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page/Screenshots#Netscape_.28old.29
-- Rowan Collins BSc [IMSoP]
D & D Player DaGoat wrote:
I have been developing a wiki site that needs to display on systems running Windows 2000 running IE and Solaris running Netscape 4.7. The machines running IE work with no problem at all. But the Netscape 4.7 does not display the page so it can be read. I am right now searching the archives to see if anyone else has posted about this problem yet. If you know of any real quick solution to this that have been posted can you please post the date of that post so I can go back to that one and see if the fix works. Thank you very much for your help
Cant you get firefox or mozilla on those solaris machines ? Netscape 4 is a really old browser :-/
Yes Firefox or Mozilla can be installed on the solaris boxs but the default browser for the solaris boxs is Netscape 4. And all web programs need to be writen to run with Netscape 4 because this is running on a goverment network.
On 10/22/05, Ashar Voultoiz hashar@altern.org wrote:
D & D Player DaGoat wrote:
I have been developing a wiki site that needs to display on systems
running
Windows 2000 running IE and Solaris running Netscape 4.7. The machines running IE work with no problem at all. But the Netscape 4.7 does not display the page so it can be read. I am right now searching the
archives to
see if anyone else has posted about this problem yet. If you know of any real quick solution to this that have been posted can you please post
the
date of that post so I can go back to that one and see if the fix works. Thank you very much for your help
Cant you get firefox or mozilla on those solaris machines ? Netscape 4 is a really old browser :-/
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The fault lies with Netscape 4 being unable to render the pages, it seems. There's not a lot MediaWiki can do to fix that problem - if the government network manager wishes to use MediaWiki, then (s)he needs to upgrade the browser. Simple as that.
Rob Church
On 26/10/05, none dagoat0@gmail.com wrote:
Yes Firefox or Mozilla can be installed on the solaris boxs but the default browser for the solaris boxs is Netscape 4. And all web programs need to be writen to run with Netscape 4 because this is running on a goverment network.
On 10/22/05, Ashar Voultoiz hashar@altern.org wrote:
D & D Player DaGoat wrote:
I have been developing a wiki site that needs to display on systems
running
Windows 2000 running IE and Solaris running Netscape 4.7. The machines running IE work with no problem at all. But the Netscape 4.7 does not display the page so it can be read. I am right now searching the
archives to
see if anyone else has posted about this problem yet. If you know of any real quick solution to this that have been posted can you please post
the
date of that post so I can go back to that one and see if the fix works. Thank you very much for your help
Cant you get firefox or mozilla on those solaris machines ? Netscape 4 is a really old browser :-/
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