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Re: Bordered Table in Netscape 4.7

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From: Laurie Davis-Covin
Date: Feb 10, 2003 12:20PM

I hear you!
Did you see what Terence came up with?

At 03:36 PM 2/7/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>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>
>
>
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