New Netscape 6.2 - Same Old Bug

animated gif with transparency is a no-no

[tedster]

Netscape 6.0 had the bug -- an animated gif with transparency in the first frame choked the rendering machine. The transparency rendered with the file's "matte color" instead instead of transparency. VERY ugly!

With 6.1 I had hopes, but the problem persists.

And now, 6.2. Some old thing

What good is standards compliance if something common that's been in place for years gets mangled? The saving grace -- almost no one uses the browser.

[minnapple]

Tedster, I know what you feel.

A checked on stats of one of my sites show Netscape viewers at 9%.

I know I have spent a great amount of time to make the design Netscape compliant.

I think I am going to check my buying logs to see if Netscape users are more or less likely to make a purchase.

If this 9% of viewers don't generate the revenue needed to support them, perhaps I will ignore them.

How many of us tweak our sites for WebTv?

Where do you draw the line on ROI?

[toolman]

>>>>How many of us tweak our sites for WebTv

I only sniff for WebTv on frames because of the annoying tendency for WebTv to expose the entire page in a frameset instead of just the visible part of the frame. I redirect them to a WebTv page.

Netscape runs a solid 4-5% across multiple sites....vast majority on 4.7.... 6.2 is a great improvement but it's still Netscape...I wish it would just go away.