Re: CSS and Netscape

Short and simple:
If you want Netscape 4.X support, you do not want standards.

The Hacks'R'Us department is somewhere else.

I apologize if that sounds crude, but welcome to the real world. Either you
want standards (with a small degree of customizations) or you do not want
standards and you can keep on using TABLE/FONT/IMG-spacer-based layouts.

Give up Netscape 4 or give up standards.


Thor Larholm
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----- Original Message -----
From: <Mike.Steckel@SEMATECH.Org>
To: <public-evangelist@w3.org>; <list@webdesign-L.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2002 7:18 PM
Subject: CSS and Netscape


>
> We are in the process of redesigning a multiple company extranet and have
> learned that a huge number of our users have Netscape 4.X as their
browser.
> Consequently, some of our team is reluctant to design using standards (the
main
> concern is using CSS) since it will mess up the design we have already
created.
> The concerns include CSS becoming overhead and that keeping track of how
the
> various workarounds for Netscape 4.x work and don't work, along with the
> inheritance issues, will take a huge amount of time. I would love to know
what
> some of our options are, but don't have the technical expertise to make a
strong
> case. Any advice?
>
>

Received on Friday, 30 August 2002 04:58:45 UTC