ick AOL

[Dork 1]

erm A member of my site informed me that half my site is not "aol friendly" and since I know nothing about aol how the heck can I make it "aol friendly"? is there a browser that it acts like? My site is "internet explorer & netscape friendly" any info on this will be apreciated thanks

[da_silvy]

LOL

i don't bother with AOL or Netscape

It's probably not good, but they should get a *better* provider or browser...

[JoshT]

Did AOL have there own browser at one time? They might be using an Ancient version of IE skinned to look like part of AOL.

And Netscape should not be snubbed. They innovated everything people take for granted (javascript, cookies, being able to change colors, use of jpegs, etc)....

[da_silvy]

I'm not snubbing them

Just not accommodating (is that correct spelling?) them

[scoutt]

sure IE has 70% of the market and other browsers have 30%, but don't take for granted that 30% is still 17 milion people.

just for your thought.

AOL friendly?? why because you don't have porn on you site AOL uses IE for it's browser, unless they changed it 7.0. hmmm I am going to have to read up on this.

[JoshT]

Sigh.

I remember when Netscape had 75% of the market and people who made web pages for IE that wouldn't work in NS would get laughed at.

[filburt1]

Originally posted by scoutt
AOL friendly?? why because you don't have porn on you site AOL uses IE for it's browser, unless they changed it 7.0. hmmm I am going to have to read up on this.

Right, they use the WebBrowser control to cheat and make their "own" browser. I think it was AOHell version 3.0 or so that actually used its own HTML rendering engine.

[scoutt]

guess I have to prove you wrong once again. AOL 5.0 used IE. I am pretty sure of that. but I know for a fact the AOL3.0 was IE.

[scoutt]

just a side note and to maybe help you get AOL friendly.

Beginning with Windows AOL 3.0 (32-bit), the AOL client does not have a browser embedded, but instead uses the Internet Explorer browser the user already has installed within their system. On the Mac and 16-bit Windows clients, the AOL client contains various versions of Internet Explorer embedded directly within the client, and independent of the version of Internet Explorer installed outside AOL in the system.

Therefore, browser compatibility is mostly independent of any specific AOL version. There are various incompatibilities which may arise in the way the specific AOL clients interact with the Browser which can result in unexpected behaviors of the browser itself. This includes but is not limited to the following HTML and Javascript functions: Window Functions (Popups/Sizing/Positioning) and Timers. These behaviors are documented elsewhere on the web.info site.

taken from
http://webmaster.info.aol.com/index....nd=0&sitenum=2

[CiberTHuG]

AOL/TimeWarner now owns Netscape. So their embedded browser is Netscape 6. I don't know if they started using Netscape at AOL 7 or AOL 6.

As far as accomadating anyone, Da_silvy... Netscape invented JavaScript, so you are accomadating IE.

Aside from that, I have to say again, stick to the standards. If their browser can't handle it, then that is no concern of yours.

[da_silvy]

hardly accommodating ie

I'm accommodating netscape as i do a fair bit of dhtml and vbscript so....

[JoshT]

Mozilla is better then Opera. I'm finding Opera doesn't support CSS2 well at all.

[scoutt]

Originally posted by JoshT
Mozilla is better then Opera. I'm finding Opera doesn't support CSS2 well at all.

that is the main reason I got rid of Opera. besides that it sucks.

[JoshT]

I kinda like it better than Netscape on Linux. Plus I have a Pentium 166MHz Linux box, and Opera is significant faster than Netscape on it.