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Different Stylesheets for IE/NN?


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epretorious

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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?
Eric P.
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Dirk

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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
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veroxii

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And besides, who uses any browser other than Mozilla??? ;-)
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epretorious

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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.)
Eric P.
Sunnyvale, CA
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