- From: Joe Clark <joeclark@joeclark.org>
- Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 13:59:15 -0500
- To: WAI-IG <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
- Cc: julia@we3.co.uk
>My problem is, my client, who is large and archaic, has about 7,000 >PCs running netscape 4 only. So it is important to write a site that >looks good for them. Thing is, while it works, it looks s*** in that >lovely browser. In my experience, your only options are: * Browser-sniff to send different versions to NN4 and non-braindead browsers. * Send essentially plain-text-only version to NN4 through CSS-hiding tricks. * Start with one of the few NN4-safe CSS layouts and tweak ever so very carefully until it looks good in other browsers too. Warning: I did this and ended up bollocksing my layout in NN4 despite having valid CSS and HTML. Craig Saila is the canonical source for NN4-safe CSS <http://www.saila.com/usage/layouts/nn4-layouts.shtml>, but there's another one I just saw the other day that I'd have to plow through my bookmarks for. >What do I do? I am sorely tempted to write to the head of IT at the >client organisation and say that if they want W3c compliant, >accessible sites (which they demand, quite rightly) that look good >at their end (which is important to them) then they have to install >standards compliant browsers on their machines. Please do do that. -- Joe Clark | joeclark@joeclark.org Accessibility <http://joeclark.org/access/> Weblogs and articles <http://joeclark.org/weblogs/> <http://joeclark.org/writing/> | <http://fawny.org/>
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