RE: Professional Question - Dealing with MANY ppl on one site
by Andrew McFarland <aamcf(at)aamcf.co.uk>
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Hi,
I've just been looking at the site in question. The problem lies with the
document style sheet (the one inside the STYLE element, not the LINKed one)
It has, for example:
a:link.index {color :#FFFFFF;}
This is valid under CSS2, but not CSS1, and it seems to be one of the
things that Netscape 4 doesn't cope with.
It works if you change it to
a.index:link {color :#FFFFFF;}
In CSS1 (and, it would seem NS4) the :link and its kin has to come at the
end of the selector.
I have put a `fixed' version of the page on http://aamcf.co.uk/temp/remer
This is a comparatively minor change to make, and could be easily done
using a global search and replace such as you find in most decent text
editors, and many HTML editors.
I would avoid browser detection and redirection. The main reason for this
is the difficulty of detecting and redirecting appropriately, plus the
additional maintenance overhead. There is also a sense in which it is
philosophically `incomplete' to do this, but I'm probably being too picky
here :-)
Carol Parent wrote:
>Question:
>1) Would you for the relatively small % redo the unlinked pages to make
>sure they are "white" in Netscape 4.
In this case yes, definitely. The fix is a small change which can be easily
done.
>2) Since I am using style sheet link and css in header what would be the
>fastest way to "update" all these "black" unlinked pages?
Global search and replace in a text editor.
>3) What do you think the problem is with his e-mail? (I tried it on my
>Netscape 6 box and it worked just fine)
No idea - it works for me :-)
>4) Would you restrain yourself from telling this one person to go jump
>in a lake?
Yes, although it sounds tempting. Encouraging them to upgrade to Mozilla
0.9.7 would be a good move tho. Its the nicest browser ever.
Andrew
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