Can anyone explain in what way Netscape is not W3C compliant?
Web authors can format their pages as they wish. However it makes sense to format web pages so that they are as widely accessible as possible. The way to do that is to follow the W3C HTML standard and not rely on the manner in which one particular browser handles markup code that has unspecified behavior.
The nested tables that PPRuNE uses can give rise to all sorts of unspecified behaviors. As I wrote in the "Postings off the screen" thread in this forum, I believe that the problem lies with incompatible element tags in some table data entries, not with Netscape. If so then the solution should be to fix the markup code, not change the browser. Does anyone really want Microsoft to determine all internet standards?