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Average rating: 7.6 (3 votes - 1 anonymous) for Web Designer's Worst Nightmare: Netscape 4.x

Lo_fi (0)


Content		7
Organization		5
Personal Slant		7
Overall		6.3

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Dave (2)
Nov 14th, 2001


Content		6
Organization		9
Personal Slant		7
Overall		7.3

I thought that the article did voice the frustrations many web designers have about Netscape 4.x.

However, some of the content was not entirely correct. The article states:

"A partial solution lies in CSS positioning, but then again you can't use CSS layers to create dynamic-width designs."

You better tell the guys at the Noodle Incident about that! Check out http://www.thenoodleincident.com/tutorials/box_lesson/boxes.html and you will see many dynamic width CSS designs.

Also, some of the code that the article talks about is not W3C compliant anyway, (background colors in tables and table cells for example) so it shouldn't be used in any browser. Tables are a (non-standard) means to an end.

Granted, other browsers will render this code, but shouldn't we be moving towards standards compliance and CSS layouts rather than still using tables?

So, I agree with the article when it says that Netscape 4.x is a piece of #%&#@, but I don't think that we should be trying to make table fixes and kludges. Instead we should be exploring the layout possibilities of CSS.