Netscape - CSS - different hosts - Wierd!

Posted: Fri May 24, 2002 6:28 pm (21 years, 11 months ago)

Here's a strange one for you!

I've been working on a site that has a linked style sheet. I noticed that in NS4 on mac and PC the styles were not displaying, but was fine in IE.

I couldn't find any obvious mistakes, but by eliminating various parts of the style sheet it would work. Stupid things like font-family definitions (the kind of things you use on a regular basis) Anyway this was inconsitent sometimes it fixed it other times it didn't.

By this time I'm well frustrated !!

And now the strange bit:

This was happening on my Cyberwings webspace, but when I uploaded the same 2 HTML and CSS files to my F2s space they work fine in NS4.

What on Earth is going on? I have phpBB running on Cyberwings and its styles work fine (although its not an external file in this case).

Is it even possible that a different host could make a difference to a CSS file?

Your thoughts please people....

Team Member Joined: 06 Jan 2002 Posts: 2564

Are you sure about the different hosts bit? I know that Netscape has a problem with importing style sheets, but Cyberwings shouldn't have anything to do with it...

Posted: Fri May 24, 2002 6:32 pm (21 years, 11 months ago)

Thats what you would think, but I can't but believe my own eyes!

I'll try some experiments with simple files - I will post links to them If I can get a consistent error.

Team Member Joined: 06 Jan 2002 Posts: 2564

It could be a browser/caching problem, or the file might not even exist! (I know that sounds obvious, but...)

4WebHelp Addict Joined: 07 Jan 2002 Posts: 1060

Netscape 4.xx is **** for CSS!

Posted: Fri May 24, 2002 6:46 pm (21 years, 11 months ago)

That crossed my mind to, but its normally IE I have trouble with caching old versions of a style sheet.

I've tried clearing netscape's cache and relaunching it - no good.

The file must exist or it wouldn't work in IE.

Netscape won't display the stylesheets contents like IE, but I think thats normal, isn't it?

Posted: Fri May 24, 2002 6:49 pm (21 years, 11 months ago)

Justin wrote:

Netscape 4.xx is **** for CSS!

couldn't agree more - in terms of what parts of CSS it supports e.g a:hover. but I don't normally have problems getting the basic styles to work with it.

Posted: Fri May 24, 2002 7:05 pm (21 years, 11 months ago)

Ok - if you have Netscape 4.x try these two files.
They both use identical files - uploaded by the same ftp client.

Cyberwings

F2S

The text should be verdana in blue with the title 16px and the link 11px

If yours browser is consistent with mine the F2s one should work and the Cyberwings one shouldn't.

I'm going to scream if they both work fine for you lot Laughing

Team Member Joined: 06 Jan 2002 Posts: 2564

Same happens to me. Have you looked in your error log at Cyberwings?

Team Member Joined: 06 Jan 2002 Posts: 2564

I think I've found the problem Smile

The CW page is GZipped, and I think NS has problems with that...

4WebHelp Addict Joined: 07 Jan 2002 Posts: 1060

F2S has GZIP Installed too?

4WebHelp Addict Joined: 07 Jan 2002 Posts: 1060

Daniel wrote:

Same happens to me. Have you looked in your error log at Cyberwings?

a lot of **** goes on on the cyberwings server, If I had to blame one, I would blame the cyberwings, I've already moved a few sites off Cyberwings due to some odd stuff going on.

Team Member Joined: 06 Jan 2002 Posts: 2564

GZIP may be installed, but it isn't being run on the style sheet. All I know is that the F2S one isn't being compressed, and the CW is.

Posted: Fri May 24, 2002 7:19 pm (21 years, 11 months ago)

Nothing in the error log.

So what do I do about this GZIP business?

Team Member Joined: 06 Jan 2002 Posts: 2564

Wasn't it you who turned on the GZipping in the first place?