Maybe it's just me...

question about browsers and layers

[wckdbutterfly]

recently i set up a page, and sent a friend to view it, but she was unable to, seeing only a black page.

the site is made with css, and div layers, and i was under the impression that netscape 4.0 and higher supported these. however, my friend had a problem viewing the page.

she has netscape 4.7 on a macintosh computer.

does this effect it at all?

[Imaster]

I am not very sure but netscape does have certain problems in case there are errors in external files, like js or css. thats what I have noticed.

Tell your friend to check it our on IE and get your debugging mask on and go after that damn css ;)

[tedster]

Run your page through the W3C validators for HTML and CSS

HTML Validator [validator.w3.org]
CSS Validator [jigsaw.w3.org]

When Netscape 4 shows nothing at all, it's probably a basic error in the HTML. Explorer often makes it's "best guess" but Netscape will just quit.

It's true that Netscape 4 is very old technology and often chokes on today's code -- but when it does it usually throws elements all around the screen if the code is valid. The fact that it shows nothing makes me suspect an error - incorrect tag nesting or an unclosed tag somewhere.

[wckdbutterfly]

I put it through both validators, and as for the CSS all it wants is me to put the generic san serif, and the HTML wants alt attributes on the images.

which is why this entire thing has me confused.