On 18 Feb 2005 at 12:31, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: > At 12:21 PM 2/18/05 -0500, A-NO-NE Music wrote: > >I meant NS4.7/Win2KSP4. > > NS4.0 and 4.7 are disasters. They are broken in so many ways (and now > so old) that it isn't even worth writing workarounds for them anymore! > NS4.0 will even refuse to load pages with some stylesheets, throwing > an "Error -336"! Almost any other browser is preferable (I use Opera > and Firefox).
NS 4.x puts up a blank page or even crashes when you mix a linked stylesheet with inline styles. The easiest way around this is to use one or the other (linked style sheets are certainly a lot easier than inline styles). I try to code so that NS 4.x users get a readable view, but don't worry too much about how good it looks -- I'm only going for graceful degradation that allows the content to remain accessible. Support NS 4.x at that level does mean that you can't use CSS 3-column layouts using absolute positioning and a number of other things. But other than that, I don't spend a lot of time tweaking specifically for NS 4.x. Here's a hint for using separate style sheets for NS 4.x without needing to do browser detection: Use IMPORT, which is supported by all modern browsers, but ignored by NS 4.x: <link href="styles_ns4.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"> <style type="text/css">@import url(styles_w3c.css);</style> The first will be honored by Netscape, and the latter will simply be ignored, as NS 4.x knows nothing about it. Then you'll put all styles that are supported by all browsers in you NS4.x stylesheet, and override those styles and add other styles in the W3C stylesheet. -- David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
