From: Bill Anderson <bill@libc.org>
Actually, if you look at it, NS 4.x follows more standards. IE made it's popularity by ignoring invalid HTML. The big, big, problem people have with Netscape's handling of *HTML* is that it will quite often not render incomplete table definitions. Just as it should be.
The big problem I have with NS4 is that it doesn't not render complete table definitions, if they're nested too deeply. And it does not deal with CSS correctly. In fact, there are so many bugs with this browser, there are piles of websites dedicated to it (google returned 150,000 hits for 'netscape 4 bug list'). For example: http://www.richinstyle.com/bugs/netscape4.html http://www.wowwebdesigns.com/power_guides/worst_nightmare.php http://developer.netscape.com/support/bugs/known/css.html
Other than that, it does have nasty issues with javascript. Though, in fairness there are a lot of cross-browser libraries that handle most of the differences.
Can you provide some pointers for some good ones?