[thelist] css quirks in AOL?

[JTocher]

Hi Bob,

Thanks for the check in AOL on Win - good to hear the probs are not there,
so our only issue will be with those on Mac surfing with v5.

Appreciate your comments/suggestions about the interface, however our
'designer' didn't like the page refreshing for each menu click - and, seemed
like an interesting (and challenging) alternative (albeit, took much longer
to design than separate HTML pages would have).

Still curious if anyone else has any ideas on why this is not working in AOL
v5/Mac. And, for that matter, NN 4.7.

Thanks
Janice

on 10/8/02 1:00 PM, you wrote:

> Works fine in AOL 7 (pc) just as it does in IE 6 (same Win2K machine). AOL
> for the pc uses the IE rendering engine so someone with AOL 7 but IE 5
> installed may see something different than me.
>
>> Am thinking I'll need to
>> create separate pages for NN4.7 anyway since my changeText function
> doesn't
>> seem to be working for that browser version - may just send those on AOL
> to
>> these pages as well. BUT... if there's a solution would prefer not to
> create
>> the separate pages.
>
> Javascript detecting AOL (pc) is not reliable because the agent sometimes
> identifies itself as IE, so I wouldn't count on that.
>
> As an aside, your design is nice but is there any reason why /you have to/
> use dynamic text to change the main content area? Instead of
> building/maintaining alternative pages for different browsers, why not make
> your current, single page into several html pages, and deal with browser
> differences with alternative style sheets if necessary. Not as slick I know
> as the DHTML you have but much easier/economical to build and maintain. At
> least that's my conclusion after exhausting myself building unnecessarily
> complicated interfaces in the past.
>
> Sorry I don't have a real solution for AOL (mac). Good luck.
>
>
> Regards,
> Bob Haroche
> O n P o i n t  S o l u t i o n s
> www.OnPointSolutions.com
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