From: Ford Chiang (ford@econ.Berkeley.EDU)
Date: Mon Feb 10 2003 - 12:02:59 PST
We're thinking about some of the same issues. I found this page here to be
very useful:
http://www.macromedia.com/desdev/articles/css_mmsite.html
It gives some decent explainations of the problem and sample code to fix
it.
We'll probably be using SSI to detect the USER AGENT string and spit out
a link to an appropriate stylesheet. there's also coldfusion and
javascript alternative fixes listed on that page as well.
Hope that helps,
-Ford
On Mon, 10 Feb 2003, Steve McConnell wrote:
> Public Affairs launched our NewsCenter campus news portal over
> the weekend (http://newscenter.berkeley.edu), and we're hearing
> this morning from a handful of people who find the default text on
> some pages too small to read. It's a very narrow problem -- affects
> only those users on a Mac who are still using the archaic
> Netscape Navigator 4.x browser -- and solving it for those users
> would cause problems of the opposite kind (oversized type, table
> alignment breaking) for users on the PC platform with Netscape
> 4.x. (Type sizes seem to be fine on all up-to-date browsers.)
>
> Sadly, our log files don't allow us to decipher what portion of our
> tiny (<4%) Netscape 4.x user base are on which platform, so we
> can't intelligently decide which group to offend by setting our
> Netscape 4 stylesheets to optimize type size for the other
> platform. So I'm hoping you Webnetters can give me some
> anecdotal information: In your offices/labs/departments, is
> Netscape 4.x still in use by a significant number of users? And are
> those users predominantly Mac-based? PC-based? or a mixed
> bag?
>
> Thanks in advance for any help you can offer.
>
> ~ Steve McConnell
> Web news editor, UC Berkeley
> scm@pa.urel.berkeley.edu
> 510.923.1512
>
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