[thelist] user agent strings

[John Pye]

>
> as for serving up separate style sheets, i've decided this is much safer
> than trying to write a cross-browser style sheet
>


I had to tackle this same problem recently. My solution was

. spacer images or
  DIV's with <style>.m{margin:10}</style> for all table spacing

. no <IMG style=""> ANYWHERE

. careful with placement of <FORM> tags to hide undesired spacing

. two style sheets
	. one for netscape with fonts as 8pt verdana
	. another for everybody else as 11px verdana
	(yes I know that's ridiculously small)

. this code to decide which to serve up


	<CFIF Find("Mozilla/4.0",cgi.HTTP_USER_AGENT) 
	   AND Find("Nav",cgi.HTTP_USER_AGENT)>
		<link rel="stylesheet" href="/netscape.css">
	<CFELSE>
		<link rel="stylesheet" href="/creativebase.css">
	</CFIF>

I've still got plenty of /issues/, but that seemed to go a lot of the way.

Hope that helps

John Pye
http://www.creativebase.com/
+44 (0)20 7258 6900