Viewing HTML 4.01 site in Netscape 4.7 - correction

by "Mirella Batista" <mbatista(at)yunque.net>

 Date:  Wed, 1 Aug 2001 22:03:46 -0400
 To:  <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
  todo: View Thread, Original
Sorry, but the URL should have been:
http://www.yunque.net/casadepalabras/nsat/

Here is the rest of the message (my apologies to those on digest mode):

I recently wrote to the basics list to ask for help with an XHTML site,
> which I eventually had to downgrade to HTML because the client uses
Netscape
> 4.7. This incident has put some serious doubts in my mind about a couple
of
> sites I am working on right now.
>
> This particular one,
> http://www.yunque.net/casadepalabras/nsat
> not only looks horrible in Netscape 4.x, but causes an error to close down
> the browser.  I am almost sure it has to do with my use of style sheets,
but
> wanted to check up with you guys, since I am still in the beginning stages
> of putting the site together.
>
> So I ask you this: Please look at the site and tell me if you think I
should
> go back and scrap my style sheets for font tags and more mundane methods
of
> positioning? Or, should I forge ahead with the site, concentrating on
> validation and accessibility, and create a simple page and  redirect older
> browsers to it?
>
> At this point, all of the pages almost validate - that is, except for the
> topmargin, leftmargin, marginheight and marginwidth tags (which I added
for
> the benefit of older browsers!).  I must solve this dilema, not only to
> provide a good service to this client, but because another site I will
soon
> begin is my ISP's, and it needs to be viewable using the most browsers
> possible.
>
> TIA,

Mirella Batista Jim�nez
San Juan, Puerto Rico
(787)279-7731
mbatista(at)yunque.net
http://www.yunque.net/casadepalabras

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