MOTM

The "high 4" versions of Netscape are especially troublesome. Around that
time, Netscape made several radical changes to their Document Object Model
that pretty much made life unbearable for web programmers. I haven't looked
at the code for this page, but there's a good chance it's a problem in
JavaScript/CSS, especially if 'layers' or other positioning are involved.
Sounds like the symptoms.

I'm not advocating one browser over another; I'm just saying that from the
design side, the world got a lot worse when they added even more
complications to the compatibility battle. After NN6 came out, I was told my
superiors to stop wasting time on Netscape support for our sites. Only
that's not the way they worded it. We can get away with that because, being
a financial Company, 98.2% of our visitors are using MSIE, and the other
1.8% are robots. Not everyone can make that decision.

As ugly as they are to work with, using nested tables are the most
compatible way to go. At least they are legacy HTML tags.

Sorry for the OT.


-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Schreiber [mailto:synth1@...] 


Well, I have *no idea*. I flunked HTML 101. Feel free to View---Source, and
send me a corrected
version. It's all those Table tags I'm sure.

Paul S.
grumble

----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Evans, Gen Mgr" <esresource@...>
To: "MOTM" <motm@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 3:36 PM
Subject: [motm] Web page trouble


> Hello Paul and the group,
>
> Anyone else having trouble loading the new stuff page?
>
> http://www.synthtech.com/new_stuff.html
>
> All I get is the NEWS header, the navigation tabs and a blank blue
> screen. Using Netscape 4.79 on a PC.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Scott