Netscape 7 and stylesheet on III server

[Bob Duncan]

Greetings,

[Cross-posted to Web4Lib and innopacusers lists]

We're having a problem with Netscape 7 (and Beonex Communicator) not 
finding/recognizing stylesheets on our III server.  No other browsers 
tested appear to have any problems finding stylesheets on this server, and 
Netscape 7 has no problem finding copies of the same stylesheets when 
they're on servers other than the III box.

We are calling the stylesheets with the link element and have tried 
absolute as well as relative values for the href attribute, but Netscape 7 
will not recognize any stylesheets on the III box (inline styles are 
recognized fine).  Behavior is consistent regardless of where the calling 
page resides.  (Note to III users:  this is just a plain old stylesheet 
used to format Web pages;  it has nothing to do with a wwwoption stylesheet 
used to format WebPAC output.)

Is there something about a stylesheet that Netscape 7 expects to see that 
the III server is not providing?

One possible clue:  using IE6, if I access the stylesheet directly on the 
III box, the browser handles it by attempting to render it to the 
screen.  Using IE6, if I access a copy of the stylesheet directly on a 
non-III server, the file opens in my stylesheet editor. (My Windows file 
types settings call for anything with an extension of "css" and MIME type 
of "text/css" to be opened in my stylesheet editor application).

Any idea what's happening here? (Feel free to visit 
<http://www.library.lafayette.edu/> with Netscape 7 to see if your 
experience mirrors ours.)  Could this be an issue of the III server not 
correctly identifying the file lafayette.css with the proper mime type?

Thanks,

Bob Duncan



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Robert E. Duncan
Systems Librarian
David Bishop Skillman Library
Lafayette College
Easton, PA  18042
duncanr at lafayette.edu
http://www.library.lafayette.edu/