Ah, seems like when Outlook crashes, it's saved in the drafts folder...

Here's the mail. :-)  Sorry for the overload.



One of my trainees is making a work on browser differences, but has not gone
into CSS too deep.  I will try and summarize.

IE has buggy support for anything CSS, since it depends on the previous
versions of IE.  Netscape 6 'should' have full support.  Though we can see
differences in many fields.

PARTIAL SUPPORT

text properties: vertical-align
classification properties: display, white-space


BUGGY SUPPORT

basic concepts: class selector or ID as selector (problems with recognizing
any class or ID selector that starts with a number.  Problem grows to life
when the class selector should be recognized.  Macintosh version doesn't
have the problem.)
formatting model: horizontal formatting, inline elements, replaced elements,
the canvas
text properties: text indent
box properties: border
forward compatibility: parsing

DISPLAY

Even when CSS should offer pixel-precise positioning of elements, there is
still a difference between the various browsers.  eg...

<.H1 style="margin-top: 0px; margin-left: 3px; font-weight: bold;
font-family: Arial; font-size: 58px; color:#203E59;">Explorer vs
Netscape</H1>
<.H1 style="margin-top: -80px; margin-left: 0px; font-weight: bold;
font-family: Arial; font-size: 58px; color:#3A6F9E;">Explorer vs
Netscape</H1>

copy and paste in an HTML doc.

ALso mind, fixed sizes in points will be interpreted in a different way on
PC or Mac.

http://www.webreview.com/style/ will give you an extensive overview of
supported and non-supported attributes, per browser.


Kayjey



-----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
Van: owner-hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org
[mailto:owner-hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org]Namens ALG2dotCom
Verzonden: woensdag 6 juni 2001 15:05
Aan: 'Mike Henden'; hwg-techniques(at)mail.hwg.org
Onderwerp: RE: Cascading Style Sheets usage


Very good question. I would like to use CSS on a few of my upcoming projects
as well. I was wondering if there was a chart somewhere that breaks down
what CSS tags and attributes are supported by what browsers (I think 4.0
versions are the cutoff for support.)

Also, I have heard speculation but not actually seen any proof, that the
(link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="whatever.css") method if placed
between the (head)(/head) tags will make the browser disregard all the font
tags within the page. Is there any proof of this.

Thanks,

ALG2

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