RE: Professional Question - Dealing with MANY ppl on one site

Absolutely PERFECT!!!!!

Thank you so much.  Did the change opened it in Netscape and the links
are now white!

Thank you so much!

Carol Parent


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-hwg-basics(at)hwg.org [mailto:owner-hwg-basics(at)hwg.org] On
Behalf Of Andrew McFarland
Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 12:56 PM
To: hwg-basics(at)hwg.org
Subject: RE: Professional Question - Dealing with MANY ppl on one site

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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