WebAIM - Web Accessibility In Mind

E-mail List Archives

Re: Bordered Table in Netscape 4.7

for

From: Lori K. Brown
Date: Feb 7, 2003 12:58PM

Laurie --

Tables don't accept CSS styling very well or very consistently in
Netscape 4.7x. Before I understood this, I spent at least 40 hours on
the kind of problem you are working on here. Don't. Do. It.

When I absolutely HAVE to have a certain look on a table, I use all
the bad old attribute controls, which work, but are not CSS, and
upset
the perfect coding people. And you cannot ever get rid of that ugly
bevel on table borders, which is truly painful.

YOu could probably use some insane combination of divs with single
pixel borders and the table for the data, but it's perversely
complicated for such a simple purpose.

The better answer is to tell this person that writing modern XHTML
and
CSS based pages means either 1) browser-switching to a lobotomized
version of your pages for Netscape, or 2) choosing not to care what
things look like in Netscape 4.7x. When one doesn't have the option
of
blowing off NN 4.7x, do #1. When you do, do #2.


Lori Kay Brown
User Interface Engineer
SiteScape, Inc.
E-mail: <EMAIL REMOVED>


----
To subscribe, unsubscribe, or view list archives,
visit http://www.webaim.org/discussion/