Some comments about the style sheet

Why?

Several reasons, of which the below are a few:

• I wanted to move to HTML 4.0 Strict to ease maintenance and error-checking of the pages
• I wanted a non-Mosaic-derived look without going for complicated and clumsy solutions like tables, font, etc.
• I wanted to learn CSS

Why now?

Two reasons:

• I'm writing a book about "Dynamic HTML", mainly concerning itself with CSS so I needed a reasonably large project to work with and learn it
• The 3.5 beta of the Opera web browser appeared, which meant that there were two browsers with decent support for CSS (the other being Internet Explorer

Why does it look like crap in browser XXX?

Probably due to a buggy implementation of CSS in your browser. To take one examples, Netscape 4.x doesn't handle floats, line-heights or list button images correctly. Internet Explorer 3.x is even worse. Similar troubles might be experienced in other browsers.

The easiest way to remedy this is to turn off CSS/style sheets in your browser - the pages will then be fully viewable if rather bland-looking. The same is true if your browser doesn't support CSS in the first place.

But the best option is to badger your browser manufacturer about getting proper CSS support and send them bug reports.

Karl-Johan Norén, kjnoren@hem3.passagen.se
My Robert Jordan page
Last modified/Senast ändrad: 09 Jan 1999