Netscape 4 Revisited

I hope this is the last post on this subject! I felt the need to look at this again because the redirecting of Netscape 4 users just wasn’t working properly on this site. There are some browsers out there that seemed to be fooling the browser switcher javascript. In any case it didn’t seem very polite to send Netscape 4 users off to another site so I have looked again at other ways.

Fortunately, I have a copy of Eric Meyers’s excellent book - Cascading Stylesheets - O’Reilly—and I came across a suggested way of giving Netscape users an alternative stylesheet. It turns out that you can link an external stylesheet by two methods: using link or using @import. Netscape 4.xx doesn’t recognise the latter so by using both methods you can fool Netscape 4 into using the former!

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Posted on 26 Feb 2003 around 8pm • Tagged with: Web Technology | Permanent link to this article

Netscape 4

Recent comments on the last post have prompted me to look again at this Netscape 4 issue. It turns out that there are still some people around who are using Netscape version 4, in spite of the fact that it was released in 1997 (5 years ago!). Netscape is currently freely available version 7.

I suspect that many web designers don’t have a copy of Netscape version 4 knocking around. I suggest that all web designers dust off any old pentiums or PowerPCs and install a copy of the old browsers.

What’s that? You lost the old browser software installers?

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Posted on 15 Jan 2003 around 10am • Tagged with: Web Technology | Permanent link to this article