[WEB4LIB] RE: CSS-2 question

[Andrew Mutch]

Jeffrey Zeldman showed how they were able to address the issue of browsers
that were not compliant with CSS.  You can see the "fix" here:

http://www.alistapart.com/stories/journey/5.html

What they ended up doing is referencing the stylesheet in a way that only
CSS-2 compliant browsers would recognize the stylesheet.   If a browser that
doesn't support CSS or does it poorly, like Netscape 4, comes to the page, it
doesn't "see" the stylesheet and renders the page in "pure" HTML.  Now, if you
haven't used HTML-hacks to create your page, your non-compliant visitors
should still see your information in a coherent way.   It just won't be as
"pretty" as if they had a CSS-compliant browser.

Andrew Mutch
Library Systems Technician
Wateford Township Public Library
Waterford, MI


> > Finally, no-tables sounds wonderful.  So when am I going to find the
> time to
> > monkey with CSS, apply it to all my pages, and create two versions of
> all my
> > pages, one CSS compliant, one bare bones html?  All that, when what I
> really
> > need to do is learn how to do database-driven pages, and figure out this
> > XML/XHTML thing, and...
>
> Maybe you should sit down with a cup of decaf and figure out how much of
> that you really need to master.  Speaking only for myself, I've never
> written two versions of the same page, and I've been sprinkling CSS around
> since the summer of 1996: that's how CSS was designed to work.  If you
> don't want to learn CSS, or really don't have time to do so, get an
> editing tool that handles it for you.  Same with XML and XHTML.
>
> Thomas Dowling
> OhioLINK - Ohio Library and Information Network
> tdowling at ohiolink.edu