Re: how to deal with inconsistencies of css in netscape

I joined this forum to learn and get help from folks who are much more 
experienced than I am. In that I assumed that "stupid" questions were 
permitted and sometimes letting off some frustration is OK.

I admit that I was frustrated (where did I "rant"?) with my problem after 
working on this for some time, however, to be berated for my question 
rather than helped leaves me wanting and you looking a bit immature...




At 6/20/2002 07:05 PM, cbirds wrote:
>Martin Clifford hunted and pecked out this message on 6/20/2002 4:51 PM
>
> >First of all, you're designing backwards.  If you want to design
> >cross-browser sites, you should be designing for Netscape, as IE is MUCH
> >more forgiving, and will usually display working docs from NS properly.
>
>I guess I had the same reaction to Nate's rant that Martin did. I simply
>design for 4.7, add in features for IE such as hover, and all is well,
>never any complaints. It CAN be done when you see nifty menus coded like
>the ones that were posted here earlier....and no large business would
>think of hiring a designer who plunks the code into a page editor, checks
>it in IE and posts it to the web. In fact, many of my  jobs are
>"redesigns" of sites that were like this. I came along and submitted  a
>whole new page, and was instantly asked to do the job.
>If you were going to have a house built, would you hire a builder who
>went out and bought a "kit" and threw the thing up without knowing
>anything about building, or one who knew how buildings were put together
>from scratch? (Even if you *wanted* the house made from the kit?) Maybe
>that's a poor analogy....but it's the best way I can express it. There
>may be many people on this list who turn up their noses at Netscape, but
>my ability to make things work everywhere has been good to me. And more
>and more people are turning back to Netscape (the original one) because
>the new one and IE just don't cut it. I even went to one site, a very
>large one I was dealing with that serves the public with dynamic content
>information (banking or such) that specifically said DOES NOT WORK IN
>NETSCAPE 6, please use Netscape 4.7, or IE.
>
> >Secondly, the images on that site look as if they were saved with a 8bit
> >color pallette.  This might be intentional, might not.  Either way, it
> >doesn't look very good.
>
>Hopefully these are just "test" pictures.
>
> >And last of all... you don't get paid enough to deal with this?  If THAT
> >is all you have to deal with in web design, consider yourself lucky.
> >Unless this is something that was dumped on you, and your job is not
> >normally web design, that last statement is very irritating to read.
>
>Ditto.
>
> >I deal with the whole shabang.  Hosting, design, content, database
> >management, scripting and testing.  And you know what I do when it's all
> >said and done?  I find what's wrong with it and start at square one,
> >because NOTHING is perfect, yet I always strive to make it so.  Add to
> >that the fact that I'm not paid to do it, and I'd say that is a great
> >formula for frustration.  But it doesn't frustrate me, as it's a labor of
> >love, and I can't get enough of it.   Yes, I'm psycho, but I can't get
> >enough.
>
>Well Martin, this is how I started.......doing it without pay but for a
>good cause and doing it well. If you do what you love and do a good job,
>soon word gets around.
>If Nate really doesn't enjoy it, I don't know why he does it.
>


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