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RE: Netscape 6.1 BiDi
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- Subject: RE: Netscape 6.1 BiDi
- From: "Tzahi Fadida" <muaddib(at-nospam)mailandnews.com>
- Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 18:48:45 +0200
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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 there are very few netscape users, so they
ignore them.
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Tzahi Fadida
Tzahi@mailandnews.com
Fax (+1 Outside the US) 240-597-3213
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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 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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