[Zope] Another Zope in the wild - Anarchy Online

[Jens Vagelpohl]

just as a clarification, i was not viewing it using the much-lamented 
netscape 4.x... i was using omniweb 4.0.1 on Mac OS X which is more 
standards compliant than most of the big browsers out there. it was my 
impression that the website designer simply looked for a couple browser 
version strings and checked things that way, which is truly shaky.

i guess you could sum it up as "i don't know this browser so it must be 
unable to view this site"-kind of thing. bah.

jens


On Sunday, July 1, 2001, at 10:44 , infos wrote:

>> I just started playing Anarchy Online (a new online massively multiplayer
>> game), and when visiting their community site
>> (http://community.anarchy-online.com) I noticed some distinctive URLs :^
>> )
>
> ---
> a little off-topic, but this web site is truly bad in design.
> whoever designed this website is one of those people who try to shut out
> those whose web browser does not fit into his little world of thinking and
> all i got was some dumb page asking me to upgrade or download a different
> browser.
> this is about as cardinal a sin as saying "best viewed at 600x800"...
> ---
>
> i don't think you can blame webdesigner to focus on making "cool" stuff
> instead of fighting netscape's buggy implementation of web standards...
>
> i've made a lot of webdesigns and evrytime i could i made it
> netscpae/macintosh/etc... friendly, but sometimes you just have to get rid
> of netscape 4.x because it is such a piece of junk that you simply can't
> work with it...
>
> the reason why this particular website filters netscape 4 is because of 
> its
> weird javascript handling of objects (div), and i can really understand 
> why
> they are doing it.
>
> you simply can't code "out of the w3c book" with netscape, it's impossible
> to get something working straight...
>
> take a look at www.dhtml.com and you'll see that 90% of the code is 
> netscape
> compatibility/bugs related.
>
> imho of course ;-)))
>
> bonnyk
>