Ringing in the new year by writing Netscape 4 code fixes. Yes, in the year 2004. Writing workarounds specific to a 4.76 CCK build no less. Still being distributed here on campus (along w/ Netscape 6.0.2; remember, the 6.0 branch? so bad that it can’t even be found in the Netscape Product Archive?). Hoo-f’in-ray.

  • normal-flow DIV spaced improperly placed after absolute DIVs, click-plane problems of course also apply
  • JS parser will die on certain CSS (no surprise)
  • most bizarre: within a function, testing for document.getElementById doesn’t return false value