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| message from ndeklotz on 22 Jul 2004 |
What is the industry standard for cross-browser campatability?
I know that less then 1% of the traffic for one of my client sites use
Netscape 4.xx or earlier...yet I want to implement some css styles that do not
work in tables for Netscape4.xx...I can accomplish the same desired look not
using css styles and it works in Netscape 4.xx...at what point do you quit
trying to accomadate older browser users?
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| ndeklotz replied to ndeklotz on 22 Jul 2004 |
Murray, the issue I am having is installing h1 tags into a table cell... it
makes the cell height larger then I want it...I've adjusted the padding and
margin to 0px, and that did the trick in every browser but Netscape 4.xx.
In looking at the w3schools.com section on it, it claims the bottom padding
does not work with tables in Netscape 4.xx, so I assumed that was the issue.
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| Murray *TMM* replied to ndeklotz on 22 Jul 2004 |
Yep - you are right. My copy of Cascading StyleSheets 2.0 Programmer's
Reference tells me that margin-bottom is not supported in NN4x. What a
shame.
I would leave it alone, frankly. It doesn't interfere with the functional
or informational aspect of the site, does it?
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| Murray *TMM* replied to ndeklotz on 22 Jul 2004 |
There is no industry standard. It's your decision.
Use the stylesheet, but hide it from Netscape. Let Netscape use an
alternate stylesheet that doesn't have the troublesome styles. Which are
they, by the way?
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| darrel replied to ndeklotz on 22 Jul 2004 |
I don't think there is any official industry standard.
Best practices would state that you should be browser agnostic and make your
website as accesible as possible.
Some business just decide IE 5.5 on the WIndows operating system is all they
want to support.
'Accomodating' just means that you let them access the site and get to the
content/functionality. You don't need to give NN4 users the fancy CSS...just
give them the unstyled content.
Learn to make sites that degrade well. Go in with the attitude that you'll
let everyone into your site, but they may not all see your site the same
way.
-Darrel
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