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Re: No styles in Netscape 4 [message #2968 is a reply to message #2967]

Wed, 05 June 2002 18:26

hackie

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snafu wrote on Wed, 05 June 2002 14:19

This is an FYI, mind you. I'm definitely not on a crusade to get everybody to endlessly support Netscape 4.x to an absurd degree. (So ignore this if you're not interested in NS4 compatibility)

That said, I was able to save a sample FUD page and open it in Netscape 4. Suprizingly, it loaded the external stylesheet (forum.css) of my local disk just fine. The problem seems to be that it doesn't load it over the 'net.

Having said that, a really sick NS4 style bug was revealed related to css background images, so I'm back to square one.

The developer ultimately must choose between the benefit of css background images and the benefit of NS4 compatibility. I suppose this is something people can work in their individual FUD installations by editing the stylesheet.

There is no benefit to NS4 compatibility, a stance must be taken on this issue, NS4 is crap, a well admitted and recognized piece of crap. It's **wrong** to support it, anyone who does support ns4 as a policy does the web development community a disfavor. Smile

NS4 should be simply forced to cease to exist, it's an extreme view, but then NS4 is extreme crap!

It's one of those legacy things that really doesn't matter, yet makes life difficult for everyone else. We recall fighting with NS4 during FUD 1.2.X development days, then after very VERY detailed review of the browser breakdown we realized that NS4 support is a HUGE waste of our time and is in fact counter productive to what we are trying to achieve.

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		No styles in Netscape 4 By: snafu on Wed, 05 June 2002 15:53
		Re: No styles in Netscape 4 By: Ilia on Wed, 05 June 2002 16:21
		Re: No styles in Netscape 4 By: hackie on Wed, 05 June 2002 17:52
		Re: No styles in Netscape 4 By: snafu on Wed, 05 June 2002 18:09
		Re: No styles in Netscape 4 By: snafu on Wed, 05 June 2002 18:19
		Re: No styles in Netscape 4 By: hackie on Wed, 05 June 2002 18:26
		Re: No styles in Netscape 4 By: Ilia on Wed, 05 June 2002 19:10

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