Author: Jan Leffers
Date: 07:56:19 01/03/05
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On January 03, 2005 at 09:26:49, Norm Pollock wrote:
>On January 03, 2005 at 08:39:25, Jan Leffers wrote:
>
>>On January 03, 2005 at 07:55:36, Norm Pollock wrote:
>>
>>>On January 03, 2005 at 03:24:11, Will Singleton wrote:
>>>
>>>>Many years ago I started using Mosiac, must have been around 1994. Although
>>>>there wasn't much content available, it was clear where things were going. Soon
>>>>after I switched to Netscape, a great leap forward for me, which I used through
>>>>version 4.7. Netscape seemed to implode after that, so I switched to IE
>>>>sometime around 1999, and have used it since then. Until yesterday.
>>>>
>>>>I've always been happy with IE, but recently I've had unexplained slowdowns,
>>>>timeouts, and general weirdness. So I thought, why not give Firefox a try. I
>>>>did, and now IE is a thing of the past. No more slow loading, timeouts, web
>>>>pages displaying garbled text, overlapped frames, etc. It is simple, clean and
>>>>easy to use. I spent a few hours today customizing it, getting used to tabbing,
>>>>setting up bookmarks, figuring out the keyboard and mouse shortcuts, reading the
>>>>help files. If you give it a few hours time, you'll realize it's a superior
>>>>product.
>>>>
>>>>Anyway, this is all imho, ymmv, what the heck. But it worked for me, and I hope
>>>>it works for you.
>>>>
>>>>Will
>>>
>>>I have one reservation about Firefox. There is one technique that I cannot get
>>>Firefox to recognize. It is the techniqoe of "hovering". IE reads it, but
>>>firefox does. If you want to see what I mean look at this web page of mine:
>>>
>>>http://www.hoflink.com/~npollock/soccermenu.html
>>>
>>>In the upper left and right corners, when the mouse slides over the link, the
>>>link changes color with IE. However with firefox it does not.
>>>
>>>Here is the code that is ignored by firefox:
>>>
>>><style type="text/css">
>>>
>>>body { color: "blue"; font-family: none; text-decoration: none;
>>>scrollbar-face-color: "lemonchiffon";
>>>scrollbar-shadow-color: "darkgreen";
>>>
>>>scrollbar-highlight-color: "darkgreen";
>>>scrollbar-3dlight-color: "darkgreen";
>>>
>>>scrollbar-darkshadow-color: "darkgreen";
>>>scrollbar-track-color: "darkgreen";
>>>scrollbar-arrow-color:"darkgreen";
>>>}
>>>
>>>td { color: "lemonchiffon"; font-family: none; text-decoration: none }
>>>a { color: "lemonchiffon"; cursor: hand; font-family: none;
>>> text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold}
>>>a:hover { color: "red"; cursor: hand; font-family: none;
>>> text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; font-style: none}
>>>
>>>}
>>>
>>></style>
>>
>>
>>It works well in Firefox, if you change lines like
>>
>>a:hover { color: "red"; cursor: hand; font-family: none;
>> text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; font-style: none}
>>
>>to
>>
>>a:hover { color: red; cursor: hand; font-family: none;
>> text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; font-style: none}
>>
>>I belive this is the correct form (have a look at CSS specifications
>>http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/ ) and it works fine for me.
>>
>>Regards
>>Jan Leffers
>
>Jan,
>
>Thanks. I fixed the hovering problem. There still is a scrollbar discrepancy
>between IE and firefox, but that is not serious. It appears that IE recognizes
>css while firefox recognizes css2. For example "red" or red is fine with IE, but
>only red works with firefox. I will look into it more.
>
>cheers,
>Norm
I belive that red (and not "red") was the correct form in CSS1 too, but as with
html-code, most browsers are flexibel with respect to handling minor "errors".
regards
Jan Leffers
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