Re: Netscape help required - correct message

A side note:

TopStyle is available from this link Joh gives. You can either buy it, or
download a fully-functional evalutation version. Also, a slightly less
capable, but still very valuable version known as TopStyle Lite is available
with HomeSite 4.5x and ColdFusion 4.5x as part of their default installs.

As John suggests, TopStyle is an excellent resource and can help quite a
bit. I made the decision to code two version of the site I just launched
because I knew the code used in the HTML 3.2 pages would be usable for ALL
browsers (except maybe text-only, but I think I've covered that as well),
and the code used in the HTML 4/CSS pages required the most advanced
browsers. That was my design choice, and may not be everyones'.

Kehvan

----- Original Message -----
From: "John Allred" <webmaster(at)mscounties.com>
To: <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Sunday, July 23, 2000 08:38
Subject: Re: Netscape help required - correct message


> Henry,
>
> Your site appears to work fine under both NS 4.72 and NS 2.02 on
> Windows. However, links to several images are broken.
>
> Two questions:
>
> 1) What version of Netscape is giving you problems?
> 2) What is a "dog's breakfast?" (We have tons of colloquialisms here in
> the southern US, but that's a new one on me.)
>
> A suggestion:
>
> Kehvan gave you info on browser sniffing, but another approach would be
> to use CSS to its best effect by using its features judiciously. You can
> design for HTML 4.01 and CSS 1, so that everything is functional,
> although some of the features may not display identically in all
> browsers. A really good tool to accomplish this is TopStyle, which will
> show you which CSS features work under which browsers. You can find
> information on it at http://www.bradsoft.com/topstyle/index.asp.
>
> Regards,
> John Allred

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