I think you have this straight now, but regarding what I left in your email below:
I mentioned earlier that NS uses a different Java version than IE. That's just the start of it. The browsers are nothing alike. If you're using NS to check your pages, that is MUCH better than ONLY using IE to check your pages. You make one error, and a webpage can be TOTALLY BLANK in NS, but look fine in IE. Even using basic HTML, you cannot make ANY errors and have NS display a page correctly. NS also doesn't support half the things IE does. Certain things will work in IE, yet you look at the page in NS, and it looks like someone else's website! Font *styles* are only the beginning; there's DHTML problems, certain Java Script, on and on, that doesn't work in NS. It also requires more font tags, and different types of centering tags. In my years of doing this, I have seen only ONE instance where a page looked "ok" in NS but didn't in IE. You're doing the safest thing by coding for NS. Things will look different in IE yes, but it will still look like 'a webpage'. You should have both browsers installed, and even NS 7 since it's as screwed up as NS 4.8. NS 7 supports DHTML, and all CSS, yet it renders text so small you need the 'accessibility wizard' and the 'magnifying glass' to see text. You have to change NS7's text size to 'large' in order for it to display a webpage the correct way. Of course then, the text as you see it in IE and NS 4.8 will be HUGE. That's only the beginning of that.....NS7 also doesn't support (and the only way I can describe it) is 'certain pages'. Right off hand, I don't know if it's a Java script thing or what, but when I've used it, some webpages were only plain text! No HTML, instead of seeing a webpage, you'll see the raw code! You'd be surprised how many things your missing out on by using NS. I've gone to sites with NS, and there won't even be links! The webmaster will code for ONLY IE, and use certain types of navigation and site features, and you go there in NS and you can't navigate the site. "Accessibility features" not withstanding, the only way to be sure a website's pages look as they should, is to view them in all 3 major browsers. Then you have to learn how to get the pages to look as they should in NS. As far as >certain types< of style sheets, hover effects, DHTML, and Java go, it can't be done. As far as font color; font styles*; vertical or horizontal centering or other alignment of text or objects; it can be done. *Some font styles look completely different in NS 4.8 than they do in IE, there's no way around that than to use another font style that looks the same in both browsers. Maybe by using CSS for font characteristics can make NS7 (and 4.8 for that matter) show fonts like it should, I don't know, I haven't tried it. -Clint God Bless Us All Clint Hamilton, Owner Want to exchange links with us? http://OrpheusComputing.com � ----- Original Message ----- From: "Harold B" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CLINT wrote: Harold the best thing to do is have all major browsers installed on your PC and check your pages. I use IE6, but I also have installed NS 4.8 and 7. I check all my pages in these browsers. If they display OK, I wouldn't worry about it. I don't have NS installed yet on this PC, or I'd check the pages for you. You can also run it through a validator and see it if 'complains' about the tag. http://www.w3.org http://validator.w3.org I see Peter mentioned a 'find and replace' program. I use one, and I could not do without it. They can turn weeks of work into minutes. If you use XP, it has that function built into Notepad. I've only used the one in Notepad for single characters, so to replace a block of text, you may have to use a program since I don't know if Notepad supports multiple lines. If you need the program, let me know and I can find out where I got it. I can't say right now since I don't yet have it installed on XP. All I know is the name, "Find and Replace". You can enter that with the quotes into Google and find many hits, but I don't know which one is the one I use, can't recall. Regarding Clint's idea of checking with all those browsers, that would be the responsible way of building a site (then I question how responsible I am). I use Netscape 4.79 and the only time I see the site on another browser is when visiting a friend who might use IE, and truth is that it doesn't always look the way I planned it. I remember one case where the viewer was using a larger font size on his browser which through all the centering off on my pages. I started to berate him for changing his font size; didn't matter to me that he was half blind, what mattered was that he was spoiling my pages. To me it's funny now and I can't take it seriously. I hope no one objects to my extended response. For my purpose, I have the greatest respect for the contributors to PCWorks .. Harold B. ... http://www.geocities.com/buddychai/Navigator.html ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
