styles and js

[David Harrison]

How well are styles supported in comparison to js, because I know that 10% of ppl can't or don't want to enable js but no-one ever says anything about how well (or badly) styles are supported.

[Khalid Ali]

All generation 6+ browsers support CSS1 and DOM1 for sure ...

[David Harrison]

Well that's not very good then is it, only the ppl with reasonably new browsers can view pages designed with css properly.
I wish I hadn't bothered with it now.

[Khalid Ali]

It didn't sound right....

OK here it is

all genereation 6+ browsers suport CSS1 and DOM1 in its entirety.

Now this does not mean that CSS1(partial implementations) was not supported by lesser browsers.

NS4.61+ and IE4+ had a pretty decent support for CSS1...


Here is a link
http://www.ddj.com/

to explore.The only crappy thing about this link now is that you will have to create an account.A standard account is free.Once you create account then go back to the resources page,Click on CSS reference guide.
It will bring up a css comparison chart that shows you which browser version supported what in CSS

[Charles]

The numbers: About 83% of users do not use JavaScript (http://www.thecounter.com/stats/2003/May/javas.php) But a full 95% of users use browsers that handle the bulk of the CSS2 Specification and 97% of users use browsers that are CSS1 compliant. If MSIE 5 supported the W3C DOM, and I don't remember if it did, then the numbers for that would be about the same as for CSS2. (http://www.thecounter.com/stats/2003/May/browser.php).

But there will always be browsers that do not understand CSS. Fonts and colors are meaningless to a Braille or audio browser. Hence the priority 1 Web Content Accessibility Guideline number 6.1, "Organize documents so they may be read without style sheets. For example, when an HTML document is rendered without associated style sheets, it must still be possible to read the document." (http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10/wai-pageauth.html#tech-order-style-sheets)

If you mark up your document properly in HTML 4.01 Strict (http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/), then it will work on every browser that there is. If you find that it doesn't then you haven't followed the specification properly.