I'd like to get an idea as to how many of us have browsers that can "see"
Cascading Style Sheets. Please respond OFFLIST laserlight@quixnet.net with a
"yes", "no", or "I don't know but this is the browser I use."
For those of you who aren't familiar with this, a website designed
with CSS will often be able to use smaller and/or fewer graphics files
to get the desired effect, which results in faster download times for you.
Internet Explorer 4 and Netscape 4 or better support CSS; IE3 supports it to
some degree. I am (in my copious free time)
redesigning my pages to take advantage of CSS (and un-frame it, I
think); before I get carried away with this, I'd like to see if anyone else
can read it.
--Chris DeBoe
Quixtar IBO#706882
http://www.quixtar.com
Excerpts from mail: 11-Dec-99 [OT] Style Sheets by
"Laserlight"@quixnet.net
> I'd like to get an idea as to how many of us have browsers that can
Oops! sorry....I forgot to change the "to" field. Mea Culpa (sp?)
Hiya Chris,
> For those of you who aren't familiar with this, a website designed
I use Style Sheets on the Unofficial Stargrunt II Web Site
(http://stargrunt.virtualave.net) and they work well, and (I believe)
don't cause any real problems with older browsers. They just don't see
whatever
effects you're presenting. So my advice is to keep it simple - change
the look of links etc by all means, but still keep older tags in the main
text.
Also one thing I noticed is that while the text rollovers I've done in CSS
appear in IE, they don't in Netscape. That's competition for you.
> Laserlight wrote:
> I'd like to get an idea as to how many of us have browsers that can
Though I am a great fan and supporter of CSS (I've used it for a large
webproject I'm working on) people should be aware of that it is not exactly
implimented properly yet...
Most of the basic functions work nicely within PC-based version 4.x
browsers, but if you try something remotely fancy you get different results in
IE and Netscape not to mention if you try it on MACs, Unix's etc. So the clue
is to test rigidly all the way...
But sorry for the OT post.. any replies, please use private mail...
Not counting anyone who responded to the list, here are the results, cut and
pasted, to my question "can you see CSS?":
No. (Netscape Navigator Gold 3.04 on Win 3.11).
Yes. I use IE5 Yes (Netscape 4) Netscape 4.7 Especially as lynx seems to be
able to handle the deprecation better with CSS i use navigator 4.06 (or
thereabouts) on win95 IE 5 and Netscape Communicator 4.6. YES [no browser
specified] YES [no browser specified] YES [no browser specified] at work the
latest version of IE, at home its the weird AOL 5.0 I use IE4.0 i can read
them with netscape 4 I use IE4
(The "No" answer was, IIRC, from Down Under, so seeing CSS may be a
function of range rather than simply line-of-sight--so roll your
quality die, downshifted one for each range band, and if you get to less than
a d4 you automatically miss, with no suppression...wait, I'm mixing threads
here....)
--Chris DeBoe
Quixtar IBO#706882
http://www.quixtar.com