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Re: Jarod lib update

• Posted by gebrandariz <gebrandariz at YAHOO.COM> Sep 25, 2000
• 463 views

Hi, everybody:

----- Original Message -----
From: Brian Broker <bkb at CNW.COM>
To: <EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU>
Sent: Saturday, September 23, 2000 9:42 PM
Subject: Re: Jarod lib update


> On Sat, 23 Sep 2000 11:17:41 GMT, mic _ wrote:
>
> >That reason is called "Microsoft Internet Explorer".
> >You should use Netscape.
>
> Your page declares body text="#000000" and bgcolor="#000000", and this is
> the way IE interprets the page.  Yet you've got <font class="stil1"> where
>
> all.stil1
> {
>  color:#CCCCCC
> }
>
> So you have done something with a style sheet such that you get negative
> results using one browser and positive results with another.  Then you
tell
> us we should use the browser that handles your 'trick' appropriately.
>
> Seems a bit silly to me...
> -- Brian

Every browser version I've worked with had a single and very useful virtue.
When it didn't understand a tag, property, scriptin method, etc., it simply
ignored it. So I often manage cross-browser compatibility by indicating both
(or more) syntaxes, taking care that any browser I'm targeting for doesn't
interpret something in a way other than what I intended, instead of simply
ignoring it.

This is very useful even for non-HTML purposes. You may add a <must check
this> tag, and no browser will mind.

The best basic HTML and scripting reference I've found is Stephen LeHunte's
HTML Library, a 3 MB freeware download from www.htmlib.com, worth every
download minute.

Luck.

Gerardo


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