[thelist] dangerous CSS, was: Netscape... why?

Erik Mattheis gozz at gozz.com
Mon Jun 10 01:22:00 CDT 2002


At 12:59 AM -0500 6/10/02, Samir M. Nassar wrote:
>Assuming that you are not facetious, assuming that you are serious and
>with the knowledge that there are much better CSS people on this list
>and off it, then you have the means to reach me. My email address pops
>up on every post I make.

No, wasn't being facetious ... only challenging you to do something
that seems impossible to me! ... I wish I would have said "fixed is
buggy" early in this thread instead of realizing I should have after
Chris did.

At 7:53 AM +0200 6/10/02, Chris Kaminski wrote:
>Thus spake Erik Mattheis:
>
>Position: fixed is buggy or unsupported in just about every browser.
>Personally, I just avoid it. If you /really/ need to use it, some JS is
>probably necessary.

Yup!

>As for your example page, I'm visiting in Mozilla and get a plain-jane
>version of the page, not the NN6 version. That points out the danger in JS
>browser sniffing: if you don't do it right, you'll wind up excluding
>browsers that you shouldn't.
>
>For a fix, try looking for 'Gecko' instead of 'Netscape' in your sniffer.

Nice! Thanks.

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