Your site doesnt look right with my AOL browser. Whats the problem, and whats the fix?
A. The problem is your AOLful browser, and the fix is to ditch the obsolete thing. AOL provides its users with an archaic browser that’s more or less hobbled in comparison to those used in the outside world. It’s sad but true: no one going at it with a standard AOL browser has any idea what the World Wide Web is really like. (Now you know why the cognoscenti characterize AOL as “Almost On Line”.) Now that AOL owns Netscape, you’d think they’d give their customers a decent browser. But if they did that, then those users would quickly discover that AOL offers them nothing as good as they can find elsewhere on the Web. Meanwhile, if youre running Windows 95 or higher, try minimizing your AOL/Compuserve browser, and then click on your desktop Netscape Navigator or Microsoft Internet Explorer – preferably 4X-7X in either case. Using either of these as a standalone browser, you should be fine. Dont have one? Get it free from the link at the Astropro entry. If youre running Windows 3.1X, youl
A. The problem is your AOLful browser, and the fix is to ditch the obsolete thing. AOL provides its users with an archaic browser that’s more or less hobbled in comparison to those used in the outside world. It’s sad but true: no one going at it with a standard AOL browser has any idea what the World Wide Web is really like. (Now you know why the cognoscenti characterize AOL as “Almost On Line”.) Now that AOL owns Netscape, you’d think they’d give their customers a decent browser. But if they did that, then those users would quickly discover that AOL offers them nothing as good as they can find elsewhere on the Web. Meanwhile, if youre running Windows 95 or higher, try minimizing your AOL/Compuserve browser, and then click on your desktop Netscape Navigator or Microsoft Internet Explorer – preferably 4X-7X in either case. Using either of these as a standalone browser, you should be fine. Dont have one? Get it free from the link at the Astropro entry. If youre running Windows 3.1X, youl
