Note that carefully constructed CSS-based sites, when viewed without the aid of a stylesheet, will consist of pure content markup and as such be very readable, if a bit stark. My pages work wonderfully in lynx at any rate. If a browser implements CSS only half-heartedly it's broken.
Stop promoting the tables for layout meme. Stop abusing a markup language for tasks it was never designed for. The sooner this madness ends, the better for everyone.
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Since I do not have a Macintosh system, or any OSX system local to me, I made it look good in the 11 browsers I had at hand, on the three operating systems I had at my disposal (Linux, FreeBSD, and 5 versions of Windows, using Opera/Mozilla/IE on the latter 5).
It looks and feels identical in all of the graphical browsers, falls back to the non-CSS ones (such as Netscape 4, which uses JSSS as you know), and text-mode, cell, PDA devices work as expected.
If someone could donate an m68k machine with the proper environment to test these things on, I'd be glad to make the necessary pokes to make it compatible, but I can't work miracles, sorry.
Have you run OmniWeb through the CSS test suites yet? I just googled and found a few dozen references to bugs in OmniWeb that affect CSS1 and more that affect CSS2 content (my pages are only using CSS1), so I'm not going to admit that my code is at fault here yet.
Lastly, my sites function perfectly when colors, images, css, and all other ornaments are turned off, and they fall back gracefully to those lesser capabilities, including having features to compensate for the colorblind and the blind.
No browser is perfect, but I'm going to have to assert that if it works on 11 browsers on 3 operating systems using 3 platforms, that the one browser that doesn't work, may not necessarily mean that the other 11 are broken.
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