[WEB4LIB] Re: XHTML and css

[Brian Sheppard]

You can also see the style sheet by using the CSS validator at
http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator-uri.html
It will be displayed along with any errors or warnings. 


On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, John Creech wrote:

> On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, Eric Hellman wrote:
> 
> > http://www.w3.org/StyleSheets/home
> > 
> > the href attribute uses the conventions for relative urls. (the home 
> > page URL is http://www.w3.org/)
> 
> Thanks, Eric.  And thanks to all of you who responded to my question of
> displaying style sheets from an xhtml site.  What I realized after posting
> was that I'd stated my problem incorrectly. The page source for the w3
> home page states
> 
> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="StyleSheets/home" />
> 
> My problem lies in which *browsers* can display the sheet--
> 
> NN4 will not.
> IE5 gives the message: "Internet Explorer cannot download download home
> from www.w3.org.  Internet Explorer was not able to open this Internet
> site. The requested site is either unavailable or cannot be found."
> 
> With IE5, if you add a '/' after home, you get a 404 message.
> 
> With Opera 3.62 I get a message saying that the type of file is unknown to
> Opera.  However, it did allow me to download "home" as a text file that I
> could then open in a text editor.
> 
> Interestingly, Mozilla Build 17 was the only browser I have on my machine
> that would actually display the stylesheet onscreen.  Maybe it's pilot
> error on my part, but at least w/ Mozilla I got what I wanted.
> 
> Thanks again for your help.
> 
> John Creech
> Electronic Resources & Systems Librarian
> Central Washington University Library 
> 400 E. 8th Ave. | Ellensburg, WA 98926 | 
> office - 509-963-1081 || fax - 509-963-3684
> creechj at www.lib.cwu.edu
> 
> 
> 

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