LOTS of people (like my whole family) use Netscape 4.7 and have no intention of upgrading it... it may be old but it's hardly obsolete, and I would suggest that it is not good policy to deliberately make the pedia inaccessible to ANY major browser.
I agree, and I tested with Netscape 4.7. The site is totally usable and functional with Netscape 4.7--just not the sidebar. The site is quite usable with the sidebar turned off, and works great even with Lynx, which I also tested. The site is 100% validated HTML 4, and will always be available from any browser. The sidebar is an "extra" feature that may only work on more standards-compliant ones (and actually it too works fine in Lynx--which is better than Netscape in that regard). If I can figure out how to get one of the sidebar options to work with Netscape as well without screwing up modern browsers, I'll be happy to do that too, but I haven't figured it out yet--the code is good, Netscape just can't handle it.
It is not possible to make every feature, every user setting, and every skin in all combinations work on all browsers. And it would be equally bad policy to tell users of modern browsers that we won't implement a feature for them just because some people with old versions of Netscape won't be able to use it.
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