looking at life through broken windows

A friend writes: “this page looks like crap” (I’m paraphrasing here) and sent me a screen shot to prove his point. Hmmm, works for me. So I took a look at it in the Leading Brand, in both browsers I can expect to see visits from. The left image is from Mozilla 1.6, the other IE 6.0.2800.xpsp2.030422-1633.

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Not that my stuff is a work of art, but the most beautiful sight you can imagine won’t be improved by looking at it through a broken window. Replacing it seems like the right thing to do.

[Posted with ecto]

(apropos of the About box: why does it still say “Based on NCSA Mosaic”? Is some of the code still there? Netscape was based on a post-Mosaic codebase and Mozilla’s is post Netscape (the rendering engine was developed after the source was freed). Odd.)