absolute positioning, google and compatibility

will making 2 versions of the same content hurt me?

[PatrickDeese]

I have been redesigning a site to use absolute positioning DIV tags. However, since older browsers don't support this tag the same way (or at all) the site looks like a mess in netscape for mac, for instance.

Will Google be "angry" if I have two versions of the site online - one for the majority of my visitors (explorer 5+ visitors) and another in a printer-and-netscape friendly format?

Would it be necessary to include the meta robots "no index, follow" tags on these pages in order to prevent problems with a "duplicate content" penalty?

Obviously, I would rather have both pages in the index :), but I would rather have just one of them than none of them.

[mipapage]

Patrick,

I know we talked about this a bit down in CSS, but, as long as you don't 'right' position anything absolutely, I find absolute positioning to be one of the best ways to be cross browser compatible - talking nn4, ie 5 up. Can't say that I have tested ie 4 with abs positioning, but it was supposed to have better css capabilities than nn4 no?