NS4 and inline styles?

[FayeC]

I am building a table with style samples from 3 CSS files.
We currently have 3 CSSs (NS4, IE and SUN) as our audience is diverse
(banking industry - old systems and old browsers for about 50% of the
audience).
I was told to create a table displaying the style used for each class
and how they display.
So I have 3 columns and each column has the class name being displayed
with the style for each of the systems.
I am using inline styling but NS4 won't show any of the styles
appropriately.
Is there any work around that issue?
I am currently applying the style to the cell. Should I apply the style
to the text using<span>?
Will this work on NS4?

Thanks,

FayeC

[phil-news-nospam]

On 11 May 2006 08:28:40 -0700 FayeC <fl*************@scotiacapital.com> wrote:

| I am building a table with style samples from 3 CSS files.
| We currently have 3 CSSs (NS4, IE and SUN) as our audience is diverse
| (banking industry - old systems and old browsers for about 50% of the
| audience).
| I was told to create a table displaying the style used for each class
| and how they display.
| So I have 3 columns and each column has the class name being displayed
| with the style for each of the systems.
| I am using inline styling but NS4 won't show any of the styles
| appropriately.
| Is there any work around that issue?
| I am currently applying the style to the cell. Should I apply the style
| to the text using<span>?
| Will this work on NS4?

NS4 is so defective with CSS as to be unusable without turning CSS off.
This, combined with no suitable browsers until recent versions of Firefox,
is why I've not even used CSS on web sites until the past couple months.
I would never recommend a browser to someone that I would not use myself.

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[FayeC]

well...the <span> trick works fine.
Unfortunately we can't dictate what our viewers have to use in order to
see the pages.
It's for an intranet and the idea is to load more viewable styles
depending on the browser's support to css...which in some cases might
mean a netscape 4 browser in a SUN system...
It does work so far and the chart I was doing is just for the design
team to use as a reference.
So for those looking for the same answer...use the <span> tag to apply
the style or class directly to the text.

FayeC

[Gus Richter]

FayeC wrote:

I am building a table with style samples from 3 CSS files.
We currently have 3 CSSs (NS4, IE and SUN) as our audience is diverse
(banking industry - old systems and old browsers for about 50% of the
audience).
I was told to create a table displaying the style used for each class
and how they display.
So I have 3 columns and each column has the class name being displayed
with the style for each of the systems.
I am using inline styling but NS4 won't show any of the styles
appropriately.
Is there any work around that issue?
I am currently applying the style to the cell. Should I apply the style
to the text using<span>?
Will this work on NS4?

NS 4.x had problems with inline styles. If you use a stylesheet, most of
your problems should go away. Of course, NS 4.x had limitations and
problems, but basic CSS worked well with stylesheets.

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Gus

[phil-news-nospam]

On Thu, 11 May 2006 16:15:59 -0400 Gus Richter <gu********@netscape.net> wrote:
| FayeC wrote:
|> I am building a table with style samples from 3 CSS files.
|> We currently have 3 CSSs (NS4, IE and SUN) as our audience is diverse
|> (banking industry - old systems and old browsers for about 50% of the
|> audience).
|> I was told to create a table displaying the style used for each class
|> and how they display.
|> So I have 3 columns and each column has the class name being displayed
|> with the style for each of the systems.
|> I am using inline styling but NS4 won't show any of the styles
|> appropriately.
|> Is there any work around that issue?
|> I am currently applying the style to the cell. Should I apply the style
|> to the text using<span>?
|> Will this work on NS4?
|
| NS 4.x had problems with inline styles. If you use a stylesheet, most of
| your problems should go away. Of course, NS 4.x had limitations and
| problems, but basic CSS worked well with stylesheets.

Basic CSS (well, maybe very basic CSS) worked in NS 4. However, complex
CSS was being used in a sufficiently large number of sites that caused
NS 4 to display things even worse, or in some cases actually crash. Of
course the blame lies with NS 4, not with CSS or the web sites as long
as they were standards compliant. That's why I had to leave CSS turned
off for NS 4. Thus I didn't use CSS at all in my web pages.

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