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Moin,
On Monday 02 April 2007 18:09:44 Brion Vibber wrote:
Erik Moeller wrote:
On 3/25/07, Simetrical Simetrical+wikilist@gmail.com wrote:
Dunno, but I'll observe that that syntax was probably used rather than
<link> to stop CSS 1 clients from downloading the stylesheet.
Is that for bandwidth or display reasons?
To keep Netscape 4.x from completely screwing up every page's layout and crashing on most of them.
On the one hand, occasional mild aesthetic inconvenience for a small minority of people who use an obscure feature of some browsers...
"Save-as" is an obscure feature?
On the other hand, complete failure of the site to function for a small minority of people who use an older, and *almost* but not quite dead browser.
How many hits from Netscape 4.0 per month does Wikipedia have?
I really don't see how software that outdated, buggy, insecure and incomplete like Netscape 4.0 can even be considered to be supported. However, that is not my decision to make.
All the best,
Tels
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