[WEB4LIB] Re: CSS navigation bar question

[Brooks, Travis C.]

It is my understanding that Netscape 4 will completely ignore any styles with any media attribute at all (screen print etc.)  This could be a good or a bad thing, but perhaps worth noting.

Travis

Travis C. Brooks
SPIRES Scientific Databases Manager
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
http://www.slac.stanford.edu/spires/ 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Brucker [mailto:jimb at northwestern.edu] 
> Sent: Friday, July 02, 2004 8:29 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: [WEB4LIB] Re: CSS navigation bar question
> 
> Ah, that's a good point (the prerelease browser).  I'll bet 
> that's what it 
> was.  I don't really have any more details about this because 
> at the time 
> (6-8 months ago) I just put that media tag in there and 
> everything worked, 
> so I didn't investigate it any further.  So now I'm just 
> putting a feeler 
> out to see if this was/is a known issue.  The "prerelease" 
> idea sounds 
> good.  And yes, if you intend your document to be printed it 
> would be best 
> to apply a "print" style as well.  Thanks!
> -Jim
> 
> At 10:15 AM 7/2/2004, Thomas Dowling wrote:
> >Jim Brucker wrote:
> >
> > >You might also want to define your media in that link tag. 
>  This usually
> > >isn't needed unless you're working with an alternative 
> media, such as
> > >"print", but I found that some non-IE browsers were 
> getting a little funny
> > >when I didn't explicitly define the media as this: 
> media="screen".  This
> > >might seem redundant, but it is also a good habit and will 
> validate.  Has
> > >anyone else had this issue, having to include a media 
> attribute for screen
> > >displays?
> > >-Jim
> >
> >Do you have details on this?  The non-IE browsers I work with have no
> >such problems, so I wonder if this is a holdover from prerelease
> >versions of whatever browser you've seen this in.
> >
> >Of course, if you specify media="screen", don't be surprised 
> when your
> >styles aren't applied to print output.  And in Opera's kiosk mode,
> >too--it switches to media="projection" when you hit F11.
> >
> >BTW, does anyone know of any Palm or Pocket PC browser that observes
> >media="handheld"?
> >
> >--
> >Thomas Dowling
> >OhioLINK - Ohio Library and Information Network
> >tdowling at ohiolink.edu
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