[WEB4LIB] Re: What's next after HTML?

[Nancy Sosna Bohm]

on 11/20/02 11:00 AM, Thomas Dowling at tdowling at ohiolink.edu wrote:
> ...Supporting Netscape 4 does not necessarily require a contortionist act to
> make the site look exactly the same on NS4 as on up to date browsers....

The problem here was that my supervisor proofs all pages on Netscape on a
Mac, but the Reference area computers are all Netscape on PC.
Fonts in Netscape on a Mac are rendered smaller than fonts in IE on a Mac
(or on a PC), whereas fonts in Netscape on PC are rendered larger than in IE
on a PC or a Mac. 
I wrote a JavaScript to serve different styles to different browsers on
different platforms, but it didn't work well.
But I haven't given up entirely, and I still covet any insights.
Oh, and we have a Mac server.

on 11/20/02 11:00 AM, Thomas Dowling at tdowling at ohiolink.edu wrote:

> At 10:46 AM 11/20/2002, Nancy Sosna Bohm wrote:
>> I have given up using all but the most simple CSS on our site (link colors
>> and body font-family are okay), because the school policy is to support
>> Netscape 4.x on Macs, but the bulk of the student body and faculty are using
>> IE on PC's.
> 
> 
> The typical workaround for this is to put minimial, NS4-friendly style
> rules in one stylesheet, and create a second stylesheet for browsers whose
> CSS implementations are less hopeless.  Then call the second sheet from the
> first with an @import directive.  Alternatively, hide the second set of
> style rules inside a media-specific directive that specifies something
> other than just screen or all (IIRC).  Something like "@media screen,
> print, projection {...}".
> 
> Supporting Netscape 4 does not necessarily require a contortionist act to
> make the site look exactly the same on NS4 as on up to date browsers.
> 
> 
> Thomas Dowling
> OhioLINK - Ohio Library and Information Network
> tdowling at ohiolink.edu
> 
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