You can often avoid using HTML tables by using Cascading Style Sheets instead. I used to try and do this a lot, and it worked great with the Internet Explorer and Opera browsers.

The problem is that Netscape 4.x does not really support stylesheets in a meaningful way. So while IE and Opera users would see my page, Netscape 4.x users would get a blank page.

Several years ago there were a lot of complaints about Netscape's inadequate support for CSS. I do not know whether they have fixed the problem.

But I would say consider using CSS instead of tables to format your output, and then see whether any Netscape browser versions that you wish to support have fixed Netscape's CSS problems.

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Generating a 'please wait' message by sierrathedog04
in thread Generating a 'please wait' message by nysus

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