Netscape troubles
I’ve had at least two people tell me that, shockingly, they use Netscape. More importantly, in the last week or so the colors of hyperlinks on this blog are strange and clicking on links doesn’t cause them to open. One person said middle clicking seemed to work. Any ideas on that one?
Update: May be fixed now, thanks to reader David. Let me know.
March 4th, 2006 at 11:35 pm
Middle clicking? Is that dude still using an Amiga?
My college roommate had one of those…only computer I’ve ever seen with 3 mouse buttons. I didn’t know any of them were still functional.
March 4th, 2006 at 11:47 pm
Netscape still makes a browser? Who’da thunk it!
As for three-button mice…what other kind are there? On just about any scroll mouse the scroll wheel itself is a clickable button…I haven’t used anything but one of those for ages.
March 5th, 2006 at 2:32 am
“Use something other than Netscape”?
I wasn’t aware Netscape still made browsers, either. I use Firefox exclusively, but I can understand using a browser out of habit (or if their place of employ requires it — strange as that is)
Mice: I have had a PC mouse with three buttons, and my current mouse has a scroll wheel that functions as a button. Personally, I want more buttons on my mouse. Not like many, just a few… I can’t imagine having less, that’s for certain.
March 5th, 2006 at 5:40 pm
The current Netscape is just the Mozilla suite with some AOL crap added to it.
March 5th, 2006 at 6:59 pm
I’m not surprised at Netscape itself … like Alcibiades says. I’d ask which version of Netscape, and on what platform. MS? Mac? Linux? Solaris? What? Also, what brand/type of mouse. Sometimes, especially with the increased sophistication of mice and mouse drivers, it’s possible to configure a mouse to be pretty strange. For that matter, I think newer versions of Netscape/Mozilla allow some mouse-button customization as well.
I actually still have Netscape 4.n on a Win95 box here. I used to use it to make sure any pages I set up were at least readable on older platforms. Seems a lost cause these days. You’d be surprised, sometimes, to find that there are folks out there who are still running older stuff, because they have no reason to upgrade, that they know of, or don’t want to for some reason.
Looking at your page source, I see nothing troublesome. Older browsers won’t recognize your doctype declaration, but should also then default to something at least usable.
March 5th, 2006 at 9:43 pm
I don’t know about anyone else, but I’m using Mozilla 1.3.1 on MacOS 9. I get the link problem also. It’s some issue with Javascript. If you turn it off, the links work. I narrowed it down to the scripts at the bottom of the main page in which you call to the sitemeter counter.js. For some reason, the links screw up when both of those call to counter.js Changer either one to something else, and the links work fine. Perhaps there is some bug in the early Mozilla/Netscape that screws up when any html file calls the same javascript file twice in the same html file. It does appear that you don’t need both of them.
March 5th, 2006 at 9:46 pm
Hmm. Odd as I only have one sitemeter code on any page.
March 5th, 2006 at 9:54 pm
They’re coming from somewhere. The odd thing is one of them is commented to be
March 5th, 2006 at 9:55 pm
bah…it didn’t let that through….
I said that one of them was commented — copyright (c) 2002 Sitemeter and the other one was commented — copyright (c) 2005 Sitemeter
March 5th, 2006 at 10:02 pm
Hmmm. Never realized it was on there twice (main page, that is). Try now. I got rid of the Sidebar code.
March 5th, 2006 at 10:03 pm
The links work now P.S. Nice blog 🙂
March 5th, 2006 at 10:05 pm
Thanks and thanks for the help.
March 6th, 2006 at 9:27 am
Seems to work now (or again). And yes, I still use Netscape 7.0 (I actually use several browsers: Safari, Netscape, and even an old Mac IE) mostly because I like the email client Netscape came with. My computer is OLD and my dial-up to slow to induce me to download something newer.