Page Won't Render In Netscape < 6.0

[Guest_imported]

I have been making a web site for my friend's band for quite a while. I figured out a while ago that it wasn't being rendered in netscape. I did some work trying to clean it up, but it still doesn't render at all in old versions of netscape. Take a look at

http://limestone.livevictoria.com/new/index.php3

and let me know what could be causing the problem.
If you go to one of the other pages such as

http://limestone.livevictoria.com/new/index.php3?sect=pics

almost everything is displayed properly except the heading "pics" isn't displayed? maybe it is actually being displayed, but I can't see it becuse it is being rendered in black on the black background. The stylesheet modifies the body tag so that it should make all the text white.

At first I thought it would be the style modifying one of the table background images that was breaking the page, but I just tested it and that isn't the problem.

thanks in advance

 

[GIGN]

old versions well, the probem probly runs quite deep - but you could just about take the chance to ignore any version < 6 now!

But styles are quite a pain with NN, you need to keep redefining them in each table cell and stuff.

I just checked it out in Netscape, and nothing appears at all on te home page? hmmm -BB &quot;Alright whatever man, I'll hook up the hair, but I aint touchin the ring...Cause I'm still a pla--yer&quot;

 

[Guest_imported]

yeah, the initial page in netscape 4©7 was totally blank for me© what I am trying to figure out is WHY it is doing that© damnit© I would be fine with breaking any 3©0 browsers, but I would like to atleast have the 4©0 browsers work

 

[bont]

I must disagree with the first reply. Noadays you must code for 3 browser types.

IE, Netscape < 6, Netscape 6+

Netscape fixed problems with table backgrounds(for the most part, the borders still mess things up), but some of the fixes make the operation of 6+ too similar to < 6, which means now you must:

if (nescape and version < 6)
...
else
...

The only true test is to keep all three version on your system. You can find both netscapes at ftp.netscape.com, I don't know about the website, they tend to only promote the newest.

 

[GIGN]

Well it depends on the demographic you are aiming at, sure for run of the mill, generic type target audiences you need to keep NS4 (for now) - but for something which seems a bit like a pet project, a little experimental - I wouldn't lose toooo much sleep over it - particularly when obviously the site was created with no allowance made for NS4: could take time to fix. &quot;Alright whatever man, I'll hook up the hair, but I aint touchin the ring...Cause I'm still a pla--yer&quot;