This Site in Various Browsers

This web site is written to be as standards compliant as possible.

All layout is done using a seperate Cascading Style Sheet, which means that the page should be readable on any browser, and should be slightly prettier using a browser which supports CSS.

The Good

Starting with the most basic browser still in common use, this is what the main index looks like in Lynx.

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Dillo is a lightweight browser for UNIX which doesn't (yet) support CSS. It renders the index like this:

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Browsers based on the Gecko rendering engine, including Mozilla and Galeon render everything correctly according to the CSS spec (so I'm assured).

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The Bad

Microsoft Internet Explorer does some quirky stuff with the block layout. I'm assured by people who know about these things that Mozilla does it right and IE does it wrong, so I'm not inclined to work at getting things perfect in IE. After all, what incentive would they then have to fix it?

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The Ugly

Netscape Navigator 4.78 is supposed to have CSS support, but in fact it just makes a complete hash of it. Frankly it's better to ignore CSS than to do the wrong thing. Those of a squeamish disposition may like to look away now.

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The Ugly (Marginally Redeemed)

You can turn off styles in Netscape Navigator: Edit->Preferences->Advanced, then uncheck "Use Styles". It makes things better, honestly.

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