Re: TAN: webpages that suck...

On Sat, 17 Oct 1998, Christopher Palmer wrote:

> On Sat, 17 Oct 1998, Sally Caves wrote:
>
> > So background colors will load in a table but not tiled .gifs?
>
> Correct. This depends on the version number, platform, and design of the
> Web browser you're using. Earlier versions of Netscape do not support all
> the features of the newest one, and other browsers (OmniWeb, Mosaic, et
> c.) may not support them at all.
Well, you're absolutely right; here at home I have Netscape Communicator.
There at school I have Netscape Navigator.  So far, both have exhibited
more or less the same image--up until I tried this trick with the tables
and the backgrounds.  At least my text up until now has been legible, and
I don't have the problem some pages have where the whole thing loads
within your screen and your browser at home but on some computers it's
hanging off the right edge and you have to use the bottom lateral arrow
keys.  One friend of mine had this problem using tables where one column
was taken up by a paragraph of wrapped lines.  He can't seem to control
how wide it is on different machines.  I didn't know how to counsel him,
being five months new to this artform myself.  I tried making a table of
two columns where the left hand column is a paragraph of wrapped lines and
the same thing happened to me.  It fit fine on my little screen at home,
and everything was pushed to the right on the screen at school.   I do
also have MIE loaded but not the default, so I can test the images in each
browser.

> Redundancy and standards are your friends. Try specifying a color as well
> as a background image (<td bgcolor="whatever"
> background="images/ugly.gif">). Also, try out your pages on every version
> of browser you can find for your platform,
how do I do that?

> and try it out on as many other
> computers as possible. Never depend on browser-specific features for
> legibility.
>
I'm thankful that I have access to other computers, then.  Thanks for your
suggestions.

Sally
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