[thelist] Site check -- will swap for Linux browsers ;-)

[Nick Wilson]

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* and then Jonathan_A_McPherson at rl.gov declared....
> Linux), but you should be aware that the browser environment under Linux is
> a good deal more heterogeneous than Windows. Under Windows, IE is
> near-ubiquitous. Under Linux, there are a variety of browsers that each have

Can we have an english translation of that? I'm not stupid, but I don't
understand a word you're talking about.

> a respectable following -
>
> - Konquerer [1]
> - Opera
> - Netscape 4.x
> - Mozilla (and variants, such as Galeon)

Yes, I have them all.


> on Linux than on Windows. It's good to test your page on a few Linux
> browsers if you can, but at the moment, trying to make your pages "look
> right on Linux" is a goal that will likely drive you to (possibly criminal)
> insanity.

Did you not notice the subject of my post? I'm running RH7.3, and my
sites look just fine in all of the browsers I have except nn4 which is a
neccessary casualty for a css layout and xhtml markup.


> As always, the best way to design your pages to be viewed on a wide number
> of platforms is to ensure that they are standards-compliant; if your code
> and markup are clean and your design is flexible, a Linux user will likely
> have no problem viewing your site. Most Linux people are power users who
> know how to adjust their own fonts. (-: Set a sensible default, use scalable
> fonts, and leave it at that.

er..... XHTML 1.1 good enough? ;-)

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Nick Wilson     //  www.explodingnet.com



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