The Netscape browser appears to generate about 70% of the accesses we get
here, but I've heard that many commercial sites are avoiding it because of the
cost of licences. So, we still ought to keep in mind people using Mosaic and
even Lynx.
If you are automatically generating tables anyway, it's not that hard to
generate two forms: the full "netscaped" version, and a primitive HTML 1.0
version based on using <pre> tags. I have an example:
http://www.qucis.queensu.ca/ConGESE/Courses/tokenAlt.html is the <pre>
version; http://www.qucis.queensu.ca/ConGESE/Courses/tokens.html is the
<table> version. The latter doesn't have links in the table entries precisely
because of the Mosaic bugs, but generating them would have been easy.
Each version was generated from a simple flat data file (1 entry per line,
tab-separated fields); the fixed width table involved creating an input file
for groff and some post-processing of its output with sed.
I don't do anything fancy about deducing which form to return based on the
browser being used, mainly because I haven't graduated to that level of
ability with CGI yet; I just have each table reference the other one.
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