Browsers: November 2006 Archives

I've been experimenting with Movable Type and Blogger, figuring out how the posting experience is over This Old Mac with its various browsers (IE 5, Netscape 4.78 and iCab 2.9.9).

Per Dan Palka of system7today.com, I turned off CSS style sheets in all browsers. Now everything loads in one big page, and all the stuff on the sides of the pages that looks funky at least comes out visible -- and much quicker. None of these browsers ... and that goes for IE 5 on the PC, too, allows for automatic links or bolding and such on either blogging software, and that is unfortunate. But at least they do work. That's in contrast to other sophisticated Web-accessed services, such as Google Docs, which doesn't work even in Safari, to say nothing of IE 5 or anthing of its ilk.

This takes on more urgency, as far as blogging is concerned, because my test today of Blogger's e-mail interface -- through which you create a unique, secret e-mail address through which you can post to your various blogs -- showed this feature to be dead. That means no writing blog posts offline as e-mails (with Netscape) and sending them later, when connected. I can only hope that the feature's death is temporary.

For more info, head over to This Old Mac, http://thisoldmac.blogspot.com.