Questions about the Netscape browser

[morrisdan1]

First, for some reasons the website's visited link capacity seemed to have disappeared altogether within the Netspape 4.7x (ie. 4.78) browser. I know for sure that the codes are not the problem cause it still works using the Internet Explorer and when using Netscape 6.1. I've gone over Netscape 4.78's preference more than once to ensure that nothing was changed by accident or something. But that doesn't seem to be the case. Is this something done from the Netscape's end that they decided not to implement the "Visited link color" capablity or something ?

And because of the Netscape 4.78's problem mentioned above. It led me into thinking that maybe I have to start using Netscape 6. You know, to keep up to date and all that.

However, there seems to be a different problem when using Netscape 6. Do you know the <hr> tag ? That creates a line across the screen. For some reasons, it seems to create a whole blank line in the front of the <hr> line ?

And that what looked neat in Netscape 4.78 and Internet Explorer. That is there'll be a line or a sentence in the previous line, with the <hr> line following it. However, in Netscape 6 there'll be a whole line skipped, then the <hr> line would be shown ?

Anyone have any advice on how to get around this Netscape 6 <hr> line problem ? Thanks !

[JonnyBlaze]

Hi Dan,

Are you talking about on your own site? If yes, I tried your site on NS 4.76 and 4.72 and the visited link colors work on both. I have tried NS 6.1, and was not happy with it all, so can't help you on that end. Not really sure what is going on with NS 4.78. I don't currently use that version. I'm sure someone here will have some advice, they always do:-)

Sorry couldn't help wih the NS 6.1 question. Take care!

Jonny:)

[PaulKroll]

The 0.9.3 version of Mozilla (on which NS 6.1 is built) shows that page pretty close to identically to IE 5.5., and they've got a later release (0.9.4) which has Yet More Bugs Fixed, so it'd be worth taking a look. I'd delete with extreme prejudice any previous Netscape 6 install before installing Mozilla.

http://www.mozilla.com/

NS 4.7x has many, many problems, but I pulled down copies of your page and CSS file and was able to make the visited links change colors.... the css file that your page points to currently doesn't have a color setting for visited links, it only says text-decoration: underline.

[morrisdan1]

Ok, thanks everyone !

Now as for this part:

"the css file that your page points to currently doesn't have a color setting for visited links, it only says text-decoration: underline."

After some modifications, I currently have the css sheet written as the following:

A:link { color:#000099; text-decoration: underline }
A:visited { color:#ff0000; text-decoration: underline }
A:hover { color:#0000ff; text-decoration: underline }

That still didn't do the trick. Anyone have any ideas or suggestions on what else I could or might do to have the visited link color to work again ? Let me know. Thanks !

Sincerely,
--Dan

[sheila]

Dan, try adding semicolons after the word "underline", like this:

A:link { color:#000099; text-decoration: underline; }
A:visited { color:#ff0000; text-decoration: underline; }
A:hover { color:#0000ff; text-decoration: underline; }

Does that help???

[Rich]

hmmm...did these "stop working" when you switched to using style sheets? Are you sure :visited and :hover are supported in Netscape 4.x?

Rich

[PaulKroll]

Hey, I wasn't kidding before: visited links, style sheets: worked for me in Netscape 4.7... something. .75 or something. I dunno. It's late and I'm only vaguely concious.

Now Hover... that I doubt will work in NS 4.7x no matter what 'cha do. :(

[dank]

Yeah, link and visited should work fine (aside from Netscape's usual CSS issues of breaking down inside nested tables and what not), but hover was an IE5 introduction. Does Netscape 6 support it?

Dan

[sheila]

Well NS 6 does suppport hover. And it is part of the CSS standards. NS 6 is doing a good job of support the standards.

[morrisdan1]

Hello everyone,

First, thanks again ! Secondly, I'm aware that some of you had stated that the visited link color worked when using your Netscape 4.7x browsers. The thing here is that it still doesn't work when using my Netscape 4.78 browser.

I'm pretty much sure that the visited link color used to work within my Netscape 4.7x browsers. I do not know what prompted it to stop working ?

Not too long ago, I downloaded some java plug-ins in order for java to work in Netscape 6.x. Could that by any chance be the problem ? One reason is that I thought of this cause of the time-frame. It was close to the time I noticed that the visited link color stopped working in Netscape 4.7x.

I also tried removing the style sheet from a page altogether and the visited link color still didn't work. Tried doing it in the following page (it's a temporary page, thus why naming it animtions.html)

http://www.dansbanners.com/animtions.html

Also, tried adding the semicolons after the word "underline" and that didn't work either.

So, what's next ? Other ideas or suggestions please ? Thanks again in advance !

[morrisdan1]

Another thing is that I just checked with the Netscape 6.1 browser. Two things:

1) Is that all 3 link capabilities seem to work in Netscape 6.1. That is the link color, the visited link color and the hover.

However, as I stated before, there seem to be a problem with the <hr> tag. That there seem to be an automated blank line prior to the <hr> tag line.

Does Netscape know that this <hr> tag problem exist ? Is it something they are working on ?

2) How to clear the cache in Netscape 6.1 ? In Netscape 4.7x, they have the "Clear History" button. But they don't seem to have it in Netscape 6.1 ? Please advise. Thanks again !

[janderk]

Originally posted by morrisdan1:
2) How to clear the cache in Netscape 6.1? I Mozilla from which NS 6 is derived you would select Main menu > Edit > Preferences > Advanced > Cache > Clear

JD

[morrisdan1]

Hello everyone,

Here's the update.

1 )The following did the trick regarding the Netscape 4.78 visited link color's problem:

If links still don't change color after they are visited then the history file
may be damaged.

A) Close Communicator.

B) Rename netscape.hst to netscape.old. It is located in the user profile
directory, c:\program files\netscape\users\<your profile name> .

Then restart Communicator. The history file will be re-created and all the
newly visited links should change colors from now on.

2) Regarding the extra blank line prior to the <hr>. I figured it out that it seems to have been caused by not closing the <p> element. And that by inserting the </p> in the codes, it seems to have made the extra blank line problem go away.

Thanks for all your help though !

Sincerely,
--Dan