Vincent Puglia — Sat, 10 Jun 2000 13:41:00 +0000

Hi,

What you can do is redirect NN users to a NN page or dynamically write appropriate code within your page. This involves detecting the user's browser and writing a series of if/else's.
Something like:
if (document.layers) // nn user
{
document.write("<a href='../index.html'>Home</a>'");
}
else
{
document.write("<button onclick=location.href='../index.html' Title ='Return to GrassBlade Home Page' Style='background-color: #00ffff; width: 125px; height: 25px;'><font color=#000000 face=Arial Bold>Home</font>");
}

Hi Suzanne,
Oh come on. IE's not really permissive. It just provides shortcuts and knows better. Sort of like AOL. You know the attitude -- "Don't worry. I'll take care of you, even if you are a complete idiot."

Vinny

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[This message has been edited by Vincent Puglia (edited 10 June 2000).]

Suzanne — Fri, 09 Jun 2000 20:10:00 +0000

You can't switch anyone (or be switched) to another browser. You can suggest it, of course, but that's all.

While IE has the dominant position CURRENTLY, it is in your own best interests to learn how to make your pages cross-browser. IE is extremely permissive, in that it allows all sorts of errors to be "corrected" by the browser. While Netscape isn't perfect by any means, this permissiveness of IE makes people think less of it than they already do, but the error is REALLY on IE's side in most cases for being too permissive and allowing invalid code (like not closing tags, nesting errors, missing quotes, et cetera).

The danger in this is that your pages will break on other browsers, or worse, will break on different versions of IE, so you really need to learn to do it properly.
www.htmlvalidator.com/lite is a free validator, the pro version rocks. It will help you by finding your errors, AND telling you what the right things are.

Suzanne

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Cloughie — Fri, 09 Jun 2000 17:16:00 +0000

I don't know if there is but what if they don't have internet explorer installed. Then they will get no site.

Why not build a splash page with a "best viewed with internet explorer" caption and then a link to microsofts download site.

Actually splash pages look pretty rubbish so if you don't wnat to do that you could put a download IE symbol ion your index page.

Hope this helps.