solved: RE: [thelist] CSS and Netscape

[Nicole Parrot]

Nice tip. I'll pass it to the developer in charge

As for my problem, it's been partially fixed by a reboot. I realised that it
wasn't my code that was tricking Netscape, when even CNN stopped showing up.
A reboot fixed it.

Now we're cleaning up the HTML...

Thanks again to everyone who took a peek

> -----Original Message-----
> From: thelist-admin at lists.evolt.org
> [mailto:thelist-admin at lists.evolt.org]On Behalf Of David Braun
> Sent: October 27, 2000 1:00 PM
> To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
> Subject: Re: [thelist] CSS and Netscape
>
>
> hi Nicole
>
> I'm on a Mac, NS 4.76, and the problem you describe comes the
> other way 'round (for me):
>
> Nicole Parrot <nicole at parrot.ca> schrieb am 24.10.2000:
>
> >
> > The pages are at:
> > http://theforce.net/snowboards/halloween2000/test1.html  (the full page)
> works fine
>
> > http://theforce.net/snowboards/halloween2000/testcss.html (reduced page,
> > with CSS code)
> no go : (
>
> > http://theforce.net/snowboards/halloween2000/testnocss.html
> (reduced page,
> > without CSS code, visible in Netscape)
> no go : (
>
> >
> > Can anyone give me a clue? Please?
> >
>
> My CSS-plugin (HexMac CSS) returned some problems with colour-definition:
> it doesn't like "orange", "maroon"
>
> Not that this must be the fault, but at least it _could_ be.
> (Netscape is rather schizophrenic at interpreting CSS)
>
> hth
> David
>
> <tip type="CSS">
>
>     if you create crossbrowser/crossplatform Style-Definitions,
> avoid using
>     underscores (like, "form_description") in Classes/IDs. Netscape (mac
>     4.75 at least) fails the interpretation DUE TO the underscore.
>
> </tip>
>
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