Re: W3C Cascading Style Sheets

On Sun, 7 Oct 2001 JAMESICUS@aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 10/7/01 8:17:57 AM US Mountain Standard Time, 
> derhoermi@gmx.net wrote in reply to a message from grhodes@aoc.nrao.edu 
> (Gayle Rhodes):
> 
> > I strongly recommend to upgrade to Navigator 6.x, the NN4 codebase is
> >  about three years old and NN4 hasn't good support for CSS or HTML4.
> >  However, it is not acceptable if there are serious problems using the
> >  Validator in NN4. Could you please describe your problems in more
> >  detail?
> 
> Actually, the CSS support for the whole series of NS 4.7x Browsers is 
> abysmal. However, if the HTML and CSS is valid and properly designed, pages 
> should display satisfactorily.

Er, no. CSS in netscape 4 is a javascript-based rendering hack. And
there is valid CSS that can crash the whole thing, along with all
sorts of weird workarounds.

read:
http://www.alistapart.com/stories/died/

L.

<L.Wood@surrey.ac.uk>PGP<http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/L.Wood/>

Received on Monday, 8 October 2001 08:01:50 UTC