How can I found out what versions of HTML the browsers Netscape
Communicator 4.8 and Internet Explorer 6.0 support? Is there a general
method for any version of any browser?
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On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 19:52:21 +0000 (UTC), George Cox
<ge************@spambtinternet.com.invalid> wrote: How can I found out what versions of HTML the browsers Netscape
Communicator 4.8 and Internet Explorer 6.0 support?
They both support some parts of HTML 2, 3.2, 4.0 and 4.01 but not all
of them.
Is there a generalmethod for any version of any browser?
No.
Steve
George Cox wrote: How can I found out what versions of HTML the browsers Netscape
Communicator 4.8 and Internet Explorer 6.0 support? Is there a general
method for any version of any browser?
Most browsers support most of HTML 4.01 (and those bits which they don't
support degrade fairly cleanly).
Many browsers (but not Microsoft Internet Explorer) support XHTML 1.0 and
1.1.
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Steve Pugh wrote:
On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 19:52:21 +0000 (UTC), George Cox
<ge************@spambtinternet.com.invalid> wrote:
How can I found out what versions of HTML the browsers Netscape
Communicator 4.8 and Internet Explorer 6.0 support?
They both support some parts of HTML 2, 3.2, 4.0 and 4.01 but not all
of them.
How do we find out _what_ parts, apart from trying things and seeing
what happens?
Is there a generalmethod for any version of any browser?
No.
Steve
David Dorward wrote:
George Cox wrote:
How can I found out what versions of HTML the browsers Netscape
Communicator 4.8 and Internet Explorer 6.0 support? Is there a general
method for any version of any browser?
Most browsers support most of HTML 4.01 (and those bits which they don't
support degrade fairly cleanly).
Thanks.
On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 22:11:37 +0000 (UTC), George Cox
<ge************@spambtinternet.com.invalid> wrote: Steve Pugh wrote: On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 19:52:21 +0000 (UTC), George Cox
<ge************@spambtinternet.com.invalid> wrote:
>How can I found out what versions of HTML the browsers Netscape
>Communicator 4.8 and Internet Explorer 6.0 support?
They both support some parts of HTML 2, 3.2, 4.0 and 4.01 but not all
of them.
How do we find out _what_ parts, apart from trying things and seeing
what happens?
You look at a web site of someone who's already tried things. I'd
recommend http://www.blooberry.com/indexdot/html/index.html
with the caveat that it only covers Windows browsers.
Steve
"David Dorward" <do*****@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:ck*******************@news.demon.co.uk... George Cox wrote:
How can I found out what versions of HTML the browsers Netscape
Communicator 4.8 and Internet Explorer 6.0 support? Is there a general
method for any version of any browser?
Most browsers support most of HTML 4.01 (and those bits which they don't
support degrade fairly cleanly).
But he specifically mentioned NN4.80, whose support of HTML 4 is abysmal.
Many browsers (but not Microsoft Internet Explorer) support XHTML 1.0 and
1.1.
IE does not support xHTML, but it renders it as HTML, which for me is good
enough.
C A Upsdell wrote:
But he specifically mentioned NN4.80, whose support of HTML 4 is abysmal.
It's CSS that's abysmal in NS4.x. Plain HTML4 isn't much of a problem.
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On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 22:21:29 -0500, kchayka <us****@c-net.us> wrote: C A Upsdell wrote:
But he specifically mentioned NN4.80, whose support of HTML 4 is
abysmal.
It's CSS that's abysmal in NS4.x. Plain HTML4 isn't much of a problem.
No id link support. You have to use <a name="foo"> to put an anchor which
can be linked to by <a href="#foo">. A few other things I won't list, it's
late here, but there are some critical things old browsers cannot handle.
After a little sleep I might dig up a page which lists all the stuff NN4
can't deal with, unless someone on the other side of the rock beats me to
it.
"C A Upsdell" <cupsdell0311XXX@-@-@XXXrogers.com> wrote: IE does not support xHTML, but it renders it as HTML
Only if you falsely declare it to be html, not if it's served as xhtml
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Steve Pugh <st***@pugh.net> wrote in
news:g5********************************@4ax.com: I'd recommend http://www.blooberry.com/indexdot/html/index.html
with the caveat that it only covers Windows browsers.
That's cool - thanks for the pointer.
Jim
"kchayka" <us****@c-net.us> wrote in message
news:2t*************@uni-berlin.de... C A Upsdell wrote:
But he specifically mentioned NN4.80, whose support of HTML 4 is abysmal.
It's CSS that's abysmal in NS4.x. Plain HTML4 isn't much of a problem.
In my experience, NN4's support of HTML4 is really bad, nearly as bad as its
CSS support. There is a lot of HTML4 that NN4 renders badly, or chokes on.
I tried to code to the standards, even in those days, and a hell of a lot of
work was required to work around NN4's problems: IE4 was, comparatively,
much more compliant. You must remember that NN4 came out before the HTML4
and CSS1 standards did, and that although Netscape improved CSS support
somewhat in 4.5+, it did nothing to fix its HTML4 problems.
George Cox wrote: How can I found out what versions of HTML the browsers Netscape
Communicator 4.8 and Internet Explorer 6.0 support? Is there a
general method for any version of any browser?
Mostly you know by experience which parts work, and if you lack
experience, you'll do a lot of testing. Usually you won't find any
browser that has a badge on it "supports XHTML1.0 Strict completely" or
similar. Or if they do say this, you'd have no reason to trust their
advertising, and still do some testing. Even with experience, you must
do testing -- you might just be able to steer clear of the most common
pitfalls you remember (such as "relative positioning causes problems in
x and y" or "absolute positioning messes Win-IE6's text-selecting
functionality" or similar).
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