workaround for Netscape 4 overlaying text with black

[Daphne Tregear]

I'm following the recommendation:

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="stuff_all_browsers_cope_with.css">
<style type="text/css">
@import url(stuff_netscape_4_wobbles_with.css);
</style>

which nevertheless produces pages on which the text can't be read
since they and the background are black in Netscape 4. I've read about
the don't do

background: transparent;

and it's in the stuff_netscape_4_wobbles_with.css, so should be
ignored. Honest, guv.

Template so far is

http://is5.cs.man.ac.uk/cs-about.html

What am I doing wrong? There's a worrying large proportion of hits
from sites proclaiming themselves as Mozilla/4 in my logs, so I need
to address this problem rather than just saying "to hell with old
browser users".

Thanks for any suggestions.

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Daf Tregear
Manchester, UK

[kchayka]

Daphne Tregear wrote:

... produces pages on which the text can't be read
since they and the background are black in Netscape 4.

http://is5.cs.man.ac.uk/cs-about.html

What am I doing wrong?

In _base.css you have:
body { background: url(/images/logoleft.gif) no-repeat 9px 51px;}

You have not set a color, only an image, so results are indeterminate
regardless of browser. NS4 just does weirder things than most other
browsers. ;) Assuming you want a white background, change to:

body { background: #fff url...}

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