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RE: Netscape 6.1 BiDi



in that case they should have allowed mozilla long ago.
anyhow I think that at least galeon can indentify itself as any web brower
you want no?

I think that a nice banning threat would be more effeciant in making them
open it if you really want 

Ely Levy
System group
Hebrew University 
Jerusalem Israel



On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Tzahi Fadida wrote:

> Hi,
> I don't think that its just that. many companies find excuses not to support
> netscape because of the
> easy life internet explorer gives you with dhtml, and things like that. I
> think this is the reason, and not
> the logical hebrew. the assume thereare very few netscape users, so they
> ignore them.
> 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-il-bounce@cs.huji.ac.il [mailto:linux-il-bounce@cs.huji.ac.il]On
> Behalf Of Herouth Maoz
> Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2001 12:24 PM
> To: linux-il@linux.org.il
> Subject: 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 supportedon 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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