[LUG] Netscape and stuff

[Matthew Browning <mb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

A few of you will know what I am talking about already:


I have put together a website that looks reasonably consistant across 
the platforms to which I have access.  It is mainly text-based and 
complies entirely with the latest W3 standards (according to the W3).


However - hitting the site creates a bus error in versions of Netscape 
in the 4.x series on both Linux and, I am told, WinNT (Dr. Watson). 
This error occurs in 100% of cases.


I want this _not_ to happen and have done a reasonable amount of 
research into what causes it.  The only suitable solution I can find is 
to link NS against a historic version of libc.


A message, however, along the lines of ``this site best viewed with 
browser statically linked to legacy C library'' running across the 
footer both offends my sensibilities and would surely raise some eyebrows.


I am aware that I *could* sniff the user agent in question and serve up 
a different page for NS4.x but I don't really want to do that; after 
all, what is valid markup supposed to be about? (rhetorical).


So - are there any whizz-kids out there who have had this problem in the 
past and might suggest what is causing it?


Any suggestions would b valuable at this stage.


[MB]


What has this got to do with Linux?  Ummm, I'm running Linux, Netscape 
can run on Linux, the server is running Linux...


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