Re[2]: CSS dead?

by Gerhard Schoening <g.sch(at)onlinehome.de>

Date:	Thu, 20 Dec 2001 08:49:06 +0100
To:	Kynn Bartlett <kynn(at)idyllmtn.com>
Cc:	Norman Bunn <norman.bunn(at)craftedsolutions.com>, =?ISO-8859-1?B?TWlrYWVsIEJ5c3Ry9m0=?= <sunergy(at)mac.com>, "Hwg style" <hwg-style(at)hwg.org>
References:	mac mac2 craftedsolutions
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Hi,

On Thursday, December 20, 2001 at 06:42 you wrote:

Kynn> At 8:40 PM -0500 12/19/01, Norman Bunn wrote:
>>Could it be that the newer browsers are reducing the number of 
>>common CSS problems?

Kynn> I hope so!

NC 4.7x and NN 6.x are quite different worlds, yes, and the look of my
pages in NN 6.x is already very similar to the look in IE 5.x... but
only SIMILAR, not equal.

For example, before NN 6 appeared I used to enclose all my table cell
content in paragraphs, too, for reasons of accessibility - having been
a disciple of you, Kynn ;-) ... that is, to have correct formatting /
rendering in older or text browsers ("graceful degradation"):

... <.td><.p>content<./p><./td> ...

IE (4-5.x) doesn't care much about the paragraph tags but NN 6.x DOES
and adds additional line breaks!

Now I have to remove the paragraph tags sometimes, just to make the
look not TOO different in some "critical" parts of a page. Also, I
have to play around much too long to find out where to place more or
less line breaks, to find a common denominator for the rest of the
page where I still try to use paragraphs within table cells...

Kynn> By the way, I am working on a CSS book which will be out next year.

Sounds good... so I have a question: Is the behaviour I mentioned
above a fault of IE or a virtue of NN ??

Gerhard

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