[thelist] templates for css

[Bill Mason]

At 08:20 PM 06/09/2002, Michael Kimsal wrote:
>Tina Clarke wrote:
>
>>http://bluerobot.com/
>>
>>I just viewed the above link in netscape 4.73... there is
>>nothing there but text...
>>
>>nothing like it looks in ie5.1se...
>>
>>I meant when I asked for templates... that they render
>>tables in netscape.... does'nt css work in netscape?

Since these templates all use CSS instead of tables for layout and Netscape
4.x has many CSS bugs in this area, the templates are coded so that
Netscape 4.x cannot see the CSS.  In general Netscape 4 has too many CSS
bugs to want to count:

http://www.richinstyle.com/bugs/netscape4.html

>Looks fine in the latest Mozilla and I would therefore assume Netscape 6.2.
>
>Don't even bother trying to support Netscape 4.73.  4.79, I guess could
>be argued it's their latest 4.7 series, so maybe it should be supported
>somewhat, but 4.73 is ancient and doesn't deserve the support people
>try to give it.

Though they are around 2 years apart, .73 and .79 are virtually identical
as far as HTML/CSS rendering goes.  So if you're committing to support
4.79, you could go virtually back to Netscape 4.5 (1998) and still be
basically supporting the same browser.

Whether you want to do that is another thread....

Bill Mason
Accessible Internet
evolt at accessibleinter.net
http://www.accessibleinter.net/