What to do

[Steve K]

I'm designing and developing a website for a program on Emerging Markets
at Cornell University. The audience for this site will be people from
regions that may not be up on the latest technology, software, and may
not have anything better than Netscape 4.0, which we all know LOVES CSS.

I want to do it in CSS, at least the text (I'm fairly green at CSS) but
it looks terrible in Netscape 4.

Should I just do it without any CSS?

Thanks

[Jim Dabell]

Re: What to do

Steve K wrote:
[color=blue]
> I'm designing and developing a website for a program on Emerging Markets
> at Cornell University. The audience for this site will be people from
> regions that may not be up on the latest technology, software, and may
> not have anything better than Netscape 4.0, which we all know LOVES CSS.
>
> I want to do it in CSS, at least the text (I'm fairly green at CSS) but
> it looks terrible in Netscape 4.[/color]

An attractive option is to use one of the many CSS hiding techniques to hide
the CSS from that browser. You can even supply some basic styling (a
colour scheme for instance) to it, whilst supplying more advanced styles to
everyone else.

<URL:http://w3development.d e/css/hide_css_from_b rowsers/>

The recently redesigned Mozilla website hides all styling from Netscape 4.x
by putting everything into an external stylesheet and @importing it.

@import url("frontpage/nav4Hack.css");

Hmm... they've renamed that since I last saw it :)

One possibility is to include a warning message explaining the benefits of
upgrading their browser (but don't make the wording too strong, or you'll
just annoy them).

--
Jim Dabell

[Stan Brown]

Re: What to do

In article <smk17-F836E3.13311717 072003@newsstan d.cit.cornell.e du>
in comp.infosystem s.www.authoring.html, Steve K <smk17@cornell. edu>
wrote:[color=blue]
>I'm designing and developing a website for a program on Emerging Markets
>at Cornell University. The audience for this site will be people from
>regions that may not be up on the latest technology, software, and may
>not have anything better than Netscape 4.0[/color]

I don't understand -- how is this region dependent? You want
something better, you download it.

--
Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Cortland County, New York, USA

http://OakRoadSystems.com/

HTML 4.01 spec: http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/
validator: http://validator.w3.org/
CSS 2 spec: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/
validator: http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/