. . . muttered the ogre

Teresa Nielsen Hayden greets me with:

Hi there. Looks like you’re using barfy ol’ Netscape 4.x. I don’t want to seem unkind or rejecting, but it’s a real pain to design a web page that’ll work with Netscape 4. . . .

Funny, I seem to have managed it (better) without half trying. Oh well, better that attitude than Bennett’s ‘get lost’.

As for why I’m still using barfy ol’ 4.79: it works for me, dammit. (Most of the time.) Housekeeping – managing bookmarks and mail – is much smoother than in NS6. For example: In NS4, if I’m reading mail and decide not to deal with the current item just now, I hit ‘u’ (for mark-as-Unread). That’s not even on the menu in NS6; I have to take the mouse to another window, figure out which entry there matches what I’m reading, and click a tiny icon. A petty matter, but ease-of-use is made of such minutiae.

NS6 Mail cannot respond properly to a digest – it thoughtfully cuts off everything after the first sig-bar (any line consisting only of “−− “); but that doesn’t matter, because there’s no way to tell it that my SMTP (outgoing mail) server is not the same as my POP (incoming mail) server!

TNH continues:

In the meantime, this raw-text version of my weblog should be accessible to just about everyone. It won’t be pretty, but it should be readable. Sorry about that. . . .

Furrfu!

Single-atom bits. (Link from Eric Hall.)