I glanced through the comments about the Zope-based site on MozillaZine.
I noticed some opinions on keeping the site safe for Netscape 4.x and,
OTOH, redirecting Nav 4.x users to a upgrage page.
I sure hope the new site isn't going to have a dumbed-down layout in
standards-compliant browsers because of the brokenness of Netscape 4.x.
As we all know, making a site look as good as it can look in Nav 4.x
implies that the site will have to use all sorts of ugly tricks and the
result in standards-compliant browsers will not be as good as it could
have been had the standards-oriented route been taken.
Mozilla has an extremely good CSS implementation. As a Mozilla user, I
don't like it at all, if the potential for better typography and layout
goes wasted just because pleasing the users of an old broken browser is
considered a priority.
I am not saying that access with Netscape 4.x should be blocked. I'm not
suggesting that CSS should be used for the sake of CSS and showing off.
My point is that I think the existence of Nav 4.x shouldn't restrict the
use of CSS with clueful browsers. Let's hide the styles that Nav 4.x
can't handle from that browser (using @import) instead of dumbing the
site down for everyone.
This way, users of new browsers could get the full benefits of their
browsers and users of Nav 4.x would still be able to read the text--even
though it wouldn't necessarily be pretty for them.
For example, the page
http://home.no.net/huftis/nynorsk-programvare/mozilla/
is perfectly readable in Nav 4.x, but you get a nice layout in
standards-compliant browsers.
--
Henri Sivonen
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.clinet.fi/~henris/
