Hi,

Just wanted to know if people are still designing with NS4 in mind or is it a given thing that people are generally viewing sites in anything later than NS6?

Really wanted to know so that I knew wether to get rid of some tags which made my site work better in NS4... No point in them being there if people arent using it anymore.

Thanks

Very, very few people use NS4 these days so whilst you should still make sure that people can at least browse your site using NS4, innovation must take over.

Especially with the shift towards not using tables for layout anymore means that NS4 simply won't cut it as it's CSS implementation is messy to say the least.

Current stats estimate that 1% of browsers are NS4 (slightly less than NS6/7)

The overwhelming majority is IE5+

Thanks for the reply Rich.

The main bug I have with NS4 now is because I cant move on from having:-
topmargin="0" leftmargin="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0"

I wish I could just move that into CSS, but NS4 chooses to ignore it.

margin: 0px; doesn't work?
Anyway, don't worry about that 1% ;)

Yes you are correct that Netscape 4 will ignore margin: 0px; padding: 0px; for the body of the page. I just live with it, the % of people visiting my site using NS4 is so small it's not worth it, so long as they can get the info they want.

The most annoying thing about NS4 is it's insistance on repeating a table background across every cell of a table and even in child tables.

So the general consensus is to move forward and leave designing for NS4 behind?

That suits me, that leaves you so many more options on the design side.

Cheers. :)