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Re: Netscape 6.1 BiDi



On Tuesday 21 August 2001 08:24, Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo wrote:

> AFAIR Netscape 6.1 is Mozilla 0.9.2. 0.9.2 had BiDi checked in
> already. Anyway, 0.9.3 supports BiDi for sure - except for a couple
> of bugs in cut-n-paste.

Yes, you are right. It's better than Konqueror - it doesn't mess up 
Hebrew input.

Perhaps this is not the right place to raise this issue, but now that 
there is a browser which supports logical Hebrew, how about a 
campaign to cause the Nana shops not to reject every non-MSIE browser?

For those who don't know, if you go to Nana, and then go to one of 
the Nana shops, using a non-MSIE browser, it gives you a sour 
explaination that logical Hebrew is now the standard, and gives you a 
link to download MSIE. Not only is this a Hutzpa (OK, they should let 
me know, but they shouldn't block my way to the site. If I see 
reversed Hebrew, that's my problem, not theirs), but now that 
Netscape is fully compatible, this is plainly a Microsoft-pushing 
scheme.

I think if each of us Linux users write to the Nana webmaster 
politely and explain that Logical Hebrew is supported on our 
platform, but MSIE is not, they may be convinced to change their 
policy about it, to something more Linux friendly.

(And yes, I know - I could change the User Agent string, at least in 
Konqueror. But I side with the faction that says that a person 
doesn't need to know what a user-agent is in order to browse the web 
on Linux).

Herouth


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