[WEB4LIB] Re: Rollovers and Netscape

[Thomas Dowling]

> "Drew, Bill" wrote:
>
> > It is important to note that the rollovers created using style sheets
do not
> > work in Netscape 3 or 4.  They may work in Netscape 5 but I deleted
that
> > because it was such a dog.  The style sheets and rollovers function in
the
> > two best browsers available today: IE5 and Opera 5.0

----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Mutch" <amutch at waterford.lib.mi.us>
To: "Multiple recipients of list" <web4lib at webjunction.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2001 4:08 PM
Subject: [WEB4LIB] Re: Rollovers and Netscape


> Actually, I have done CSS rollovers in Netscape 4.  In fact, I tried it
when it
> first came out so it has been so long ago, I don't remember the
specifics.  But,
> it is possible.  See:
>
> http://www.webreference.com/dhtml/column2/
>


The term "rollover" gets used pretty loosely for several different things.
AFAICS, Bill's "rollovers" are A:hover properties in CSS--a plain-vanilla
part of the CSS2 spec from May 1998 that is simple to apply to any or all
anchors.  The article Andrew cites describes a much more involved
JavaScript technique that uses CSS positioning to hold two images in the
same position and control which one of them is visible.

By the way, the "dog" known as Netscape 6 is basically a version of the
Mozilla browser from last fall.  Mozilla has improved steadily since then,
leading up to a "Mozilla 0.8" release due RSN.  While reactions to NS6
have ranged from disappointment to extreme disappointment, I encourage web
developers to stay current with Mozilla developments by getting current
nightly versions from time to time, or at least downloading 0.8 when it
comes out.

Thomas Dowling
OhioLINK - Ohio Library and Information Network
tdowling at ohiolink.edu