Posted on: 07/22/02 12:31am
By: epretorious
I've just compared the Classic Theme in NN and in IE and am surprised to see that they are nearly identical. Does GL serve-up different stylesheets for each browser type?
Different Stylesheets for IE/NN?
Posted on: 07/22/02 12:44am
By: Dirk
No, Geeklog does no such thing. The Classic theme is so simple that it works fine in most (if not all) browsers anyway.
When you say "Netscape" I assume you are referring to Netscape versions 4.x and their horrible support for CSS. Please note that Netscape 6 and 7 have excellent CSS support.
If you ever find yourself in need of different style sheets for Netscape 4 and the rest of the browsers, here's a simple trick that beats Netscape 4 with its own shortcomings: Make a simple style sheet that even Netscape 4 can understand. Then use the @import directive to include a more complex style sheet for the other browsers. Netscape 4 does not understand @import and will therefore ignore the complex style sheet.
Hope that helps.
bye, Dirk
Different Stylesheets for IE/NN?
Posted on: 07/22/02 05:20am
By: veroxii
And besides, who uses any browser other than Mozilla??? ;-)
Different Stylesheets for IE/NN?
Posted on: 07/24/02 12:08pm
By: epretorious
I found the answer to my own question: The Classic
layout is identical in both IE & NN because it uses
pixels for formatting font-size. e.g.,
.block_header {
font-size : 12px;
font-weight : bold;
}
NN renders 12pt font much smaller than IE does but
renders 12px almost identically to IE. (I've been using
points all this time without realizing that points and
pixels are interpreted/rendered differently by NN. I
suppose that this would be an illustration of NN 4.7's
CSS shortcomings.)