more css confusion

Hi Karin,

Don't know if this answers your question or helps
solves the problem but it's worth a try....

<<You said : The following page looks fine in IE5.5
but the client reported that in Netscape (I don't know
which version, yet) the images all lay on top of the
text. I used css, but not for positioning the images.
Does anyone else see this happening and if so can you
explain
why?http://www.imagecyte.com/wagner/web2002/hsv6f.html>>

If you take a peek at the code at http://www.molly.com
(Molly E. Holzschlag site) or the Web Standards site
at http://www.webstandards.org/, you'll notice they
are using the @import rule in their style sheets.

Basically, there are two style sheets in use. The one
carrying the @import will be ignored by browsers not
fully compliant with CSS1 and 2 such as NN 4.7 but it
will read the second style sheet.

Both sites mentioned above spit out different layouts
for NN 4.7 vs higher-version browsers. The display is
ugly in NN4.7 but it's readable and usable.

A quote from Jeffrey Zeldman:

"By using the @import method with double quotes, you
protect 4.0 browsers from themselves, and have the
freedom to use CSS as it was always meant to be used.
This is another way of saying you finally have the
freedom to use a web standard per spec, instead of
kludging and compromising it at the gate."
For more info check out
http://www.alistapart.com/stories/journey/5.html
and


Nora

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