IE vs. Navigator

[laurieheron]

I have just started designing web pages commercially, so I felt like I had to download Netscape to compare my pages. I found that a page that looks GREAT in IE looks really washed out in Navigator. In fact, I'm tempted to redo the whole color scheme because it looks so bad. But I found that other pages, including Marshall's pages, looked much better in IE. Is this what other people have found?

[Marshall]

Laurie,

First, welcome to WW and second, thanks for the compliment.

I've always thought IE (and Opera for that matter) render colors better than NN - why - don't know, but it seems NN doesn't render really off-the-wall colors well. A way to compare colors easily is go to [paletteman.com...] and open the page in both browsers and select the same colors and compare.

[txbakers]

Hi Laurie: this is a sore subject with a lot of developers here.

Netscape is virtually extinct, but there are enough people still using it that we need to code for it.

I designed an ASP site which was beautiful on IE and all my javscripts worked. I decided to look at Netscape 4.7 and it was a complete mess! So I had to dumb down a lot of my code for those few users still using Netscape.

If you have the luxury, I wouldn't bother with Netscape any more. Code a redirect on your home page if a user is using Netscape and invite them to download IE.

Mike

[SmallTime]

or invite them to download Opera or Mozilla :)

[laurieheron]

Hey everybody,

Thanks so much for the input, especially the link. It's good to know that I'm not alone out here. You've all been very helpful.