Re: [Nms-cgi-devel] Re: [Nms-cgi-support] Re: FormMail

[Joseph R. <rya...@os...>]

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From: "Jonathan Stowe" <gel...@ge...>
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Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2002 11:59 PM
Subject: [Nms-cgi-devel] Re: [Nms-cgi-support] Re: FormMail


> On Tue, 19 Feb 2002, Dave Cross wrote:
> >
> > Note to nms developers: Should we look at a change so that setting
$style to
> > a false value, turns off all stylesheet code?
> >
>
> It shouldn't really be necessary because as you say if the stylesheet
> isn't there then the page will simply get rendered without the benefit of
> any styles.

Not if the user is using Netscape 4.x, which unfortunately still consumes 5%
of the browser market.
In that case, the user will be treated to a 404 page stating that nms.css
cannot be found.

> However if the user were to examine their error log they are
> possibly going to be alarmed by the number of 404s for the 'nms.css' or
> whatever is the default.  I think we should distribute a stylesheet with
> each individual program as a sort of gentle hint - in the fullness of time
> it might be nice to get together a gallery of CSS for use with NMS.  I'm
> hedging on the actual question because the code might become a little
> ugly - I'll make the change to FormMail.pl to see what you guys think.

I already did it to Simple Search awhile ago ;)
It was only a 1 line change... or do you mean to set $style equal to 0 if
the file could not be opened, despite what the user set?