Re: [Phpwiki-talk] Weird behaviour of CSS in Netscape 4

[Gary B. <ga...@in...>]

On Wed, 26 Sep 2001, Steven Murdoch wrote:

> At 15:19 26/09/01 +0100, you wrote:
>
> >On Wed, 26 Sep 2001, Steven Murdoch wrote:
> >
> > > as many of you will probably know Netscape 4 has very poor CSS support, but
> > > recently it has amazed me how poor it actually is. I have a stylesheet that
> > > (among other things) increases the left margin, and in IE and Mozilla it
> > > works perfectly, but in Netscape 4.76 it indents the first section and not
> > > the rest.
> >
> >Take my advice and don't bother. Anyone using NS4 should be used to pages
> >looking broken ;-)
>
> That might be what I'll have to do. I've put a section on saying to upgrade
> or disable CSS (When I have to use NS4 I always do this), but I'd much
> rather it looked as good as possible to everyone.
> The ProperTreatment wiki
> (http://www.digitas.harvard.edu/usemod/bin/wiki?ProperTreatment) which I
> have based my stylesheet on uses UseMod and it seems to work around the
> problem by not putting <HR> tage in a <P></P> tag. I know this isn't a bug
> in PhpWiki I'm just looking for a way to accommodate for the bugs of NS4.

The ultimate fix to make stuff work in both NS4 and Moz/IE involves a lot
of trial and error work. You end up with almost every tag having an
explicit style a la <P style="p">. It gets tedious. I did it on
inauspicious.org but then realised that I could save some 20-80% on the
size of the downloaded file if I dropped explicit NS4 support. Why make
everyone suffer increased download times just because a few people
can't/won't upgrade.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not a member of the "Best viewed with Mozilla
0.9.2 or better (except Mozilla 0.9.4) on a 1024x768 screen with 16bit
colour" brigade -- far from it (try looking at inauspicious.org with
Mozilla, IE, Lynx, whatever). I'm just not interested in wasting my time
filling my pages with cruft just to aid those who are too lazy to upgrade.

Gary