hello,
 i havnt fully tested opera 4 (beta 6) but its supposed to conform to
w3c standards totaly. unlike IE and netscape. i know it conforms to
HTML4 but im unsure about CSS. but, from what ive seen it seems to do
well. opera also supports some IE and NN taks such as marginwidth,
marginheight, leftmargin and topmargin. also opera displays frames
properly unlike NN sometimes (because it handles frames as % only. so it
converts the pixel size into % and messes it up (usualy between 1 and 5
pixels out). opera, according to the documentation isnt a nightmare. it
supports w3c sstandard CSS. but on the opera site ( www.opera.com )
there is documentation listing the CSS tags that it supports as well as
HTML tags.

 DE

did i post this to the list or no? i will resend to the list. sorry if
ive double posted.

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeanne A. E. DeVoto [mailto:jaed(at)jaedworks.com]
Sent: 29 June 2000 11:22
To: hwg-techniques(at)mail.hwg.org
Subject: Re: CSS again and relative links


At 12:06 PM -0700 6/28/2000, Rebecca Jean Pedersen wrote:
>sorry to keep plaguing everyone with my questions, but I found an
>inconsistency between what I read and what I found in practice.  I read
>that relative links are interpretted relative to the style sheet's
>location, but when I worked from that it couldn't find my image.

This is a known Netscape bug with CSS. It violates the spec in this
area.
(Pain in the ass, too, since there's no really good way to design around
it.)

In general you will find that browser support of CSS is...uneven, shall
we
say. Netscape 4.x is a nightmare, MSIE 3.0 is a sub-nightmare, and MSIE
4.x
is a partial nightmare. ;-). MSIE 5.x and now Mozilla are much better.
I
don't use Opera, but my impression is that its support is somewhere in
the
middle.

The charts at <http://webreview.com/pub/guides/style/style.html> are an
indispendable resource for coping with browser-incompatibility
nightmares.

--
jeanne a. e. devoto ~ jaed(at)jaedworks.com
http://www.jaedworks.com

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