[Pydotorg-redesign] What are the goals?

[A.M. Kuchling]

On Monday, September 29, 2003, at 06:58  PM, Aahz wrote:
> So far, everyone has said that it's possible to have something readable
> in Netscape, even if it doesn't look particularly good, so I don't see
> what the issue is.

Tim is doubtless worried that the mandate will be for the site to look 
identical in both NS4 and current Mozilla/IE/Safari/whatever.  Netscape 
4's CSS implementation is very buggy, with bugs ranging from rendering 
glitches to browser segfaults.

* If it doesn't matter if NS4 is unreadable or crashes, the designer 
can just use CSS
   and let the chips fall.  Easy.
* If the site has to be readable in NS4 but getting a different, less 
attractive, presentation
   doesn't   matter,  the designer can just hide or simplify the CSS 
stylesheet served
   to Netscape4 using Apache directives or some CSS tricks.
* If the site has to look identical in both NS4 and Mozilla, it's very 
difficult; you end up
   doubling the work required, or you implement for NS4 and avoid using 
modern CSS.

You seem to be OK with the middle option.

--amk