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Was that screen from some plug-in?
I don’t think there is such screen in WordPress.

dkaye315, what are you talking about? PHP5 has been stable for years!

WordPress (I tested versions 2.2.3, 2.3, and 2.3.1) works just fine with PHP5 (5.2.3, 5.2.4, 5.2.5). No issues whatsoever – in fact it is officially supported configuration!

Shirohagen, you obviously messed up somewhere. From your description it sounds like you actually turned off PHP at all!

What kind of images are you using?

Do *not* use value of 100 – this is the most inefficient JPEG compression possible! With 100 your thumbnail size will be several times larger with minimal visual improvement. In order to keep file size small and quality good enough – use values between 85 and 90.

Wow! That’s pretty low, isn’t it?

What a pointless rant! You start with issue of using obsolete software, and then somehow attack WordPress’ design philosophy? Huh?

There are thousands of reasons why old browser may fail to load website – all of them unrelated to XHTML validity or WordPress code. In fact the major reason in this case is lack of support for the modern standards from old browser.

So WordPress is fine.
And you need to try iCab ( https://www.icab.de ) – the last decent browser still maintained for MacOS 9.

Updated code a little (now it checks if post is actually present).