[thelist] Jumping In With Both Feet

Mark Howells mark at mountain.ch
Tue Dec 11 07:28:52 CST 2001


The best way to take users of older browsers into account when designing a
site (and it's functionality) is to identify them and provide a suitable
version of the site. For example, you could use the "dual style sheet
method" to take care of CSS issues;

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="basic.css">
<style type="text/css" media="screen">
@import "advanced.css";
</style>

By calling the advanced style sheet using the @import command, browsers that
don't understand this command (NS4.x etc) won't see it. You can make basic
CSS definitions in the basic.css file (which 99.99% of browsers currently in
use will understand), and then redefine them in advanced.css for
standards-compliant browsers (http://www.webstandards.org/upgrade/).

Javascript issues can be handled by using common element objects; sample
code is at http://www.mark.ac/help/jsObjects.html. (The background grid is
at 100px, for those interested in CSS positioning anomalies.)

Regards
Mark Howells
Working in a Winter Wonderland
http://www.mark.ac

> Von: "Paul Backhouse" <paul.backhouse at 2cs.com>
> Antworten an: thelist at lists.evolt.org
> Datum: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 11:05:09 -0000
> An: <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
> Betreff: RE: [thelist] Jumping In With Both Feet
> 
> You have to decide what you are aiming at - it could market practice - what
> the point of making a website work in NS 3 (for example) when only 0.02% are
> viewing sites in it?





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