On 2003-02-10 at 1710.28 +0100, Rapha?l Quinet typed this: > On Mon, 10 Feb 2003 16:16:56 +0100, "David Necas (Yeti)" <yeti@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > As someone who still has to use Netscape 4.x from time to time (old > computers, not enough memory to run newer browsers), I would like to > be able to support Netscape 4.x as long as it does not add too many > constraints on the design. > > > The best thing one can do with NN 4.x is [IMHO] to > > (a) detect it with PHP or whatever and don't include style > > sheets, or include a different one -- this is prohibited IIUC > > It is not prohibited, but I would like to avoid that if possible. > This trick would require dynamic pages. This would not only increase > the load on the server, but this would also prevent the pages from > being cached in proxies. I prefer static pages. > good preference. the page was designed so as to have low impact on the server on purpose. as a rule even. wilber can't take it. > > (b) use some dirty trick > > http://centricle.com/ref/css/filters/ > > to make it see no/other/only part of the style sheet, e.g. > > @import url("bigstyle.css") > i read of a rather elegant solution. apparently Netscape refuses to read the <link></link> tag if it contains the media attribute. so you can set it up this way: <link rel=stylesheet type="text/css" href="/style/dgo-ns.css"> <link rel=stylesheet type="text/css" href="/style/dgo.css" media="all"> and netscape will happily skip the second stylesheet. http://www.w3.org/Style/Examples/007/maps.html (the last paragraph) carol
