[thelist] Netscape 4 is insane

[Peter-Paul Koch]

>Ok, check this out. While I would love for someone to tell me why Netscape
>is doing this.
>http://216.136.31.164/layer.html
>http://216.136.31.164/layer2.html
>
>In the first one, the show/hide "content2" links do not work. If you look
>at
>NS4's javascript debugger, it is complaining that the content2 layer does
>not exist.
>In the second one, everything works wonderfully.
>
>Anyone would be hard pressed to find the difference between the html, so
>I'll tell you. On Line 56 there is a td with an inline style declaration of
>"color: Black". That's it! Remove that stupid style attribute and the
>content2 layers all of the sudden exists again. Told you it was insane.
>
>Anyway, this problem is affecting a more complex page that I am working on,
>but the problem there isn't a style declaration, but I believe there is a
>root cause... I cut down the larger page into these smaller ones in hopes
>that either isolating the problem would help me figure it out,  but, it
>hasn't :(

Yes, it has <g>. The problem is that inline styles in general are buggy in
NN4, and that inline styles in any table element are horrendously buggy.
Don't *ever* use inline styles in table elements if you want your site to
work in NN4.

ppk



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