NN 4 - HTML / CSS

Neal

Ok, I saw some of my pages in NN4.01. Wow. As great as they look
in a modern browser, the CSS comes out like a slaughterhouse
accident in NN4.01.

How many users are actually still using a browser this old? Is it
worth being worried about?

If so, what kinds of things can I do to either ensure the
positioning does not ruin the user's ability to read the site, or
disallow use of a stylesheet and allow the user to see the
unpresented HTML?

Jul 20 '05 #1

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David Dorward

Neal wrote:

Ok, I saw some of my pages in NN4.01.

http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=NetscapeFour

--
David Dorward <http://dorward.me.uk/>

Jul 20 '05 #2

Jim Royal

In article <3f**********************@news.rcn.com>, Neal
<ne**@spamrcn.com> wrote:

How many users are actually still using a browser this old? Is it
worth being worried about?

When I last checked, 0.6 per cent of my site visitors used Netscape
4.x. But I'm not sure how many of those might have been search engines
in disguise.

Nevertheless, when I rebuilt my site using CSS positioning, I made a
point of making sure the site would degrade gracefully in NN4.x. This
involved breaking my style sheet into two documents, and hiding one
from NN4 using the @import feature.

Take a look at the site in NN4, and see what I mean.

--
Jim Royal
"Understanding is a three-edged sword"
http://JimRoyal.com

Jul 20 '05 #3

Stephen Poley

On Wed, 7 Jan 2004 17:25:46 -0500, "Neal" <ne**@spamrcn.com> wrote:

Ok, I saw some of my pages in NN4.01. Wow. As great as they look
in a modern browser, the CSS comes out like a slaughterhouse
accident in NN4.01.

How many users are actually still using a browser this old? Is it
worth being worried about?

If so, what kinds of things can I do to either ensure the
positioning does not ruin the user's ability to read the site, or
disallow use of a stylesheet and allow the user to see the
unpresented HTML?

As this comes up frequently, I wrote a page about it:
http://www.xs4all.nl/~sbpoley/webmatters/netscape4.html

Hope this helps.

--
Stephen Poley

http://www.xs4all.nl/~sbpoley/webmatters/

Jul 20 '05 #4

Neal

Thanks, David, Jim and Stephen!

Jul 20 '05 #5

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