Yet another CSS Problem!!
Well, got the redirect CSS all figured and now comes another one.
Netscape 4.xx seems to display my external CSS file onscreen instead of the the page itself. It does not do this all the time (about 1 out of 20) and "reload button"
seems to temporarily solve the problem.
But this is a Government site and I can't afford the 1 out of 20) Is this a known problem with netscape and is there a way to fix this?
Here is the site http://www.nrcan.gc.ca/es
Luc Deault
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If the minimum wasn't acceptable it wouldn't be called the minimum
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Brian Farkas posted this at 03:08 — 18th April 2001.
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I'm honestly not sure whether this is a problem with Netscape or whether it's just your computer. When I visited the page in Netscape 4.75, it displayed correctly for me, so I don't know what to tell you...
You might try putting a link in a visible position on the Netscape page so the user can report a problem if they experience it also, that way you can get an idea of the number of people who encounter some sort of problem. Sorry I couldn't be of more help, but this is the first I've heard of such an issue.
caislander posted this at 20:06 — 18th April 2001.
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LukeD,
I visited with NS 4.76 and experianced no problem..
Later
Adam Oberdorfer posted this at 21:20 — 18th April 2001.
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It worked for me also. Style sheets are great but I never suggest relying on them entirely. It would be a little time consuming but not impossible to make this site degradable for v3 browsers and Linux, WebTV, etc.
LukeD posted this at 11:19 — 19th April 2001.
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You mean to make different style sheets for each and every browser version?
Adam Oberdorfer posted this at 17:19 — 19th April 2001.
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If you use a combination of style sheets and font tags font compatibility is fairly straightforward. Making some of the other components (particularly the DHTML) degrade nicely in 4- browsers will be a bit more difficult. There are a bunch of cross compatible style sheet guides out there. I think webmonkey.com has a good one (if I recall correctly).
Suzanne posted this at 21:15 — 19th April 2001.
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Check out their information on using style sheets properly without killing lower browsers. Start with issue no. 99.
Additionally, check out webstandards.org for the whole story.
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