Ken <tyl### [at] pacbellnet> wrote:
> The version of Netscape I am using is only 2 years old. My operating system is
> 2.5 years older than that.

  The fact that some minor update has been made to the browser 2 years ago
does not mean that it represents the top-of-the-line technology of HTML
rendering of 2 years ago. The HTML engine used by Netscape 4 is a lot older
than that and it hasn't been updated in any relevant way. Besides, 2 years
is a whole lot of time when speaking about computers.
  From what I can interpret from www.netscape.com, they don't even support
Netscape 4 anymore. At least I couldn't easily find any link to download it.
They have obviously stopped developing and supporting that version long time
ago (in favor of Netscape 6/7). This means that the longer you use that
version, the older it will get, and there will most probably be no updates
to it in order to add support for new technologies.

  So Netscape 4 is not supported nor developed anymore, it's old, it does
not support current standards and probably less than 1% of people use it
nowadays, and there's a newer and more modern version of the browser
supporting most of the current standards, freely downloadable.
  Why should I support Netscape 4? I see no good reason for that.

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