Re: Netscape 4's Parsing Problems

i've found that (for what i've done) netscape doesn't care about whether
or not things are in an internal or exturnal stylesheet...  it also
doesn't care, unfortunately, if there are @import rules in your
stylesheet, as it just ignores this along w/ many other things...

in my opinion the place where NS does the worst w/ stylesheets is in
tables...  i've found that sometimes the best way to format tables is by
using <span> elements w/in the table cells if you change alignment...  if
you try to do a <td class="title-align-right"> and the stylesheet defines
"title-align-right" to be right aligned when everything else is centered,
one of two things happens:

1.) The table is left-aligned no matter what you try to do
2.) Everything AFTER the table is aligned incorrectly

i've had a fair amount of experience trying to get things to look as much
the same from IE -> Netscape -> Netscape for linux -> Mozilla, so if
there's anything in specific you are trying to do that NS doesn't like, i
may be of help...


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On Mon, 2 Oct 2000, A Braunsdorf wrote:

> 
> I've not been on this list long, so I hope I'm not rehashing stuff
> too much.
> 
> I've been trying to get my style sheets to do something reasonable
> in Netscape 4 (a lost cause, I know), and when I'd about reached
> the end of my rope, I found that reordering things in my file
> "helped".  Argh.
> 
> Has anyone determined exactly what's wrong with Netscape's parser
> that makes it blow some kinds of declarations?  I've found moving
> things from external to internal sheets often makes them "work",
> but this reordering is considerably more mysterious.
> 
> I don't want to spend a lot of brainpower working around bugs in
> stupid browsers, but I figured if someone had already run this
> down, it could save the rest of us the trouble.
> 
> ab
>

Received on Monday, 2 October 2000 15:29:55 UTC