Fw: Style sheet and Netscape

Chuck White
chuckw@javertising.com
http://www.javertising.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Chuck White <lillyming@earthlink.net>
To: <braden@endoframe.com>
Date: Monday, August 03, 1998 7:22 PM
Subject: Re: Style sheet and Netscape


>First, shoot me if I'm wrong, but I don't perceive this list as being a
help
>file for style sheet crafters. Second, aiming for compatibility with other
>browsers (under 4.0) is fruitless. If you want to use style sheets, write
>valid HTML that would survive a "strict" 4.0 validator, and use style
>sheets. That way, everybody can read your pages, even that cheese salesman
>in Wisconsin looking at your site with a PDA
>Chuck White
>chuckw@javertising.com
>http://www.javertising.com
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Braden N. McDaniel <braden@shadow.net>
>To: 'Joel Jancovic' <joj@altique.com>; <www-style@w3.org>;
<www-html@w3.org>
>Date: Monday, August 03, 1998 3:14 PM
>Subject: RE: Style sheet and Netscape
>
>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: www-style-request@w3.org [mailto:www-style-request@w3.org]On
>>> Behalf Of Joel Jancovic
>>> Sent: Monday, August 03, 1998 8:27 AM
>>> To: www-style@w3.org; www-html@w3.org
>>> Subject: Style sheet and Netscape
>>>
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I have a problem with Stylesheet and netscape.
>>>
>>> I define the style before the body section :
>>>
>>> <style type="text/css">
>>> <!--
>>> body { color: blue }
>>> //-->
>>> </style>
>>>
>>>  or
>>>
>>> <style>
>>> <!--
>>> body { color: blue }
>>> //-->
>>> </style>
>>>
>>> And in the body section I define the text (for compatibility
>>> with Netscape
>>> 3) :
>>>
>>> <font color="gray">My text here</font>
>>>
>>> netscape 4,X displays the text in gray. and IE in blue..
>>> Which navigator is
>>> right ?
>>
>>After testing the examples I previously posted (which were based on the
>>information you provide here), I found that they both result in gray text
>in
>>*both* IE 4.01 SP1 and NN 4.05 (both Win32). What browser versions are you
>>using? Can you provide more concrete examples?
>>
>>Braden
>>
>>
>

Received on Monday, 3 August 1998 22:27:28 UTC