[thelist] Platform Detection and CSS

John Snavely snavely at amnh.org
Tue Jun 25 09:54:00 CDT 2002


>Rudy, What do you mean by "safe" style sheet? Is there an article or
>tutorial on evolt that describes this. I would much rather use 1 style sheet
>but I am having a problem coming up with a good middle ground. I was using
>px as a font size but that's too restrictive. I am thinking about using %
>instead and sticking with one style sheet. Do you have any suggestions.
>
>  >if you can isolate all your "safe" style declarations into that sheet, then
>  > the variations due to platform and browser will be minimal, and you can
>  > actually achieve a better result than depending on javascript
>
>I was trying something new and was starting with the basics to make sure
>they were working, but as you can see I didn't get very far before I had
>problems.
>
>  > But the question that comes to mind is: why are you serving different
>  > stylesheets to different browsers/platforms ... I'm not at all saying
>  > that's a bad thing, but if you could explain the trouble you
>  > experience when serving the same stylesheets to different browsers,
>  > someone may be able to suggest a solution that does not require
>  > JavaScript at all, or help you come up with some browser/capability
>  > testing that will best solve your problem.
>
>Thanks again,
>
>Blake
>blake at focusednrg.com
>
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A safe style sheet basically means a separate sheet for the NN 4.0
family. Take a look at http://www.nypl.org/styleguide/. it uses the
@import command to apply another set of styles for browsers that have
decent CSS support.
gl & hf,
John




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