Web Design in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition

Netscape Navigator 4

Netscape Navigator and Communicator 4 was once the king of the browser world. Now its user base has dwindled to a fraction of a percent. Even so, web developers may consider a site’s performance in Navigator 4 because it is typical of browsers with minimal support for current standards such as Cascading Style Sheets. Also, web developers can assume that users who still use Netscape 4 really have no alternative, for instance, because it is installed by their organization or is built into an application. While designers generally don’t worry about matching layouts exactly in Netscape 4, it is critical that no content gets lost and that advanced CSS or scripting techniques don’t crash the browser.