My second ever LJ support request

[cjsmith]

I looked through LJ support's Big Yellow Box. I looked through what seemed to be pertinent sections of the FAQ. Saw nothing relevant to the wandering userinfo icon problem.

So I filed a support request against it. I'll let y'all know what I find out.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

What you may find out is "you're the last NS 4.7 user on the open internet" :-) At my current startup, we go to a fair bit of pain to continue supporting NS 4.7 for certain "special" customers, because it misparses what little CSS it does support fairly badly... and a quick View Source shows that limegerbil is using for the empty-face icon (that is what you were calling the "buttplug", right?) so the likelihood of this being at least part of the problem is fairly high... _Mark_

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Hi Mark!

What you may find out is "you're the last NS 4.7 user on the open internet" :-)

Nope. Perhaps unfortunately!, but nope.

I can understand if LJ decides not to support it. Netscape in general seems to be losing ground badly, in part because early on they did some things right while IE was more forgiving, and that doesn't even begin to mention the incredible age of 4.7. Besides, supporting multiple browsers does get awfully annoying, awfully quickly. Many sites don't seem to make even a token effort. (Granted, that doesn't earn them huge respect in my eyes. That's one of the inherent big difficulties of the web arena, and if they can't stand the heat...) But in terms of counting noses, I'm definitely not the only one using this. Browsers had all the earmarks of a loyalty game for a while there. With every browser carrying its own flavor of stupidity and inaccuracy, I can see why users might choose to stick with a set of known "comfortable" glitches. Hopefully things are maturing past that point now.

the empty-face icon (that is what you were calling the "buttplug", right?)

Heh, of course I was calling it the buttplug. Isn't that exactly what it looks like? ;-) ;-)