CSS in Netscape not displaying properly 2

[artguy]

Does Netscape 4.X mind having a class applied to a table?

The table is nested inside 2 other tables currently. The style applies sporadically to some of the cells but not all of them. (of course, it works fine in IE)

Is this just a bad way of applying a style sheet class? Has anyone run into a similar problem?

 

[WebGodiva]

Netscape is always a problem when it comes to CSS. If you go to

http://www.projectcool.com/developer/reference/netscapecss.html,

you can find all of the information you need about applying css to work in netscape.

Unfortunately, it always seems like you have to add more code for netscape.

I'm not a proponent for netscape but it is the one browser that I tell my students to use as it makes you write correct code. IE is more user friendly and will allow you as a programmer/coder to make mistakes and it will forgive you and still show your page. Netscape on the other hand has to have correct code or it will not show your page at all. It's much harder to code for thus it gives a better learning experience.

 

[jaredn]

webgodiva... you may want to tell your students to learn to code for Mozilla or IE. Learning Netscape 4 is not going to help them as all future browsers will be based on mozilla (hopefully), most people (90%+!!!) use IE4+ (most of those IE5+) and netscape 4 is going to decay like the dead dinosaur that it is...

Also Mozilla (and to a lesser degree NS6) forces good coding habits. jared@eae.net -

http://webfx.eae.net

 

[WebGodiva]

I agree with you on the transitioning. I have them use netscape to learn proper coding. I also have them use IE 5x and Mosaic so they can see how their sites look and work on browsers that are more forgiving then netscape and how they also look on non-graphical browsers. I think the most important thing is that they learn proper coding and unfortunately, IE will allow the coder to make various mistakes without effecting the page where netscape will not.

It's hard enough to learn the difference in how browsers show your pages but it your code is not clean and proper to start with, when you hit netscape you have hours and hours of trying to figure out where you went wrong. If you start there, you know pretty much as soon as you make a mistake.

Trust me, I'm not a NS fan - I think that what they do to the sites we spend hours designing is terrible including for AOL users but they do require the code be correct to start.

Thanks for your comments