I've been asked to write a website that MUST work in Netscape 4.03 and
IE 3 for Windows 3.1. When you've stopped laughing I'm afraid I have to
say I'm serious, and there's no chance at all that the people connecting
to the site will upgrade.

I'm quite curious about this - do you genuinely have a client with a
large user base on archaic machines, or is this a "whim of the CEO who
won't upgrade" scenario?

Anyway, the next question is does it need to work as in "be
functional" or does it have to work as in "look the same"? If it just
needs to be functional, use import filters and give raw content to the
old browsers. But I'm guessing this isn't an option or you probably
wouldn't be asking :)

So, any tips to do this without reverting all the way back to 1996
tables and spacer gifs? Or am I doomed to non-standards hell?

From memory NN4 could handle some basic CSS but I wouldn't attempt to
do a modern float or fixed layout with it. Your best bet is probably
to use a CSS/table hybrid - use the table to set columns etc then CSS
for colours, etc.

IE3... sorry I simply can't recall. It's probably a little less
capable than NN4.

Cheers, and wish me luck.

Good luck, and charge appropriately - meaning charge extra ;)

-Ben

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--- evenly distributed. - William Gibson


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