IE 5 Mac issues

i’m far from an expert in CSS, but it looks like your journal page is importing two stylesheets:

<link rel=”stylesheet” href=”https://www.waterstonewildlife.org/journal/wp-content/themes/WSfinal/style.css&#8221; type=”text/css” media=”screen” />

and a few lines down:

@import url(‘https://www.waterstonewildlife.org/journal/wp-content/themes/WSfinal/styleimp.css&#8217;);

hope this helps.

Thanks for responding. Yes, there are two syle sheets. One is to give NN4x some styling and the @import is for all other browsers. Interestingly, in NN4x the navigation appears in the right place! Even though there are two style sheets (and there are some redundancies), the code is identical to the other pages where it works. I’m stumped and frustrated but it’s probably something simple that I’m just not seeing.

Just to make you less worried…
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the sentiment expressed in moshu’s link makes sense. you can’t please everybody all the time. it’s impressive that you want to try, but who really uses even NN4 anymore?

https://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp

FWIW, I have a client who uses an old Mac with both IE5 and Netscape. ?? Also I have one educational site that gets a lot of hits from countries in the global south where the technology isn’t the latest. Sometimes I’ll even get hits from IE2 and 3!!

BTW, it seems the layout problem I was having is fixed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! imadicktoo’s comments about the @import jogged my memory. IE5 on a Mac can’t read the imported stylesheet URL if it is enclosed in quotes. All I had to do was remove them and, volia! It worked. Now all browsers back to 4 will get something purdy.

I wouldn’t worry about it, just tell him to get a modern web browser like safari, firefox, omniweb, Flock, Opera or any of the other 85 web browsers available for the mac.

If he/she has an old Mac (assuming MacOS 9), then his/her only options would be IE 5, Mozilla 1.3.1, WaMCom, and iCab. In this case, I recommend iCab.

FWIW, it’s a she and not likely to change her browser until the computer dies and she’s forced to. ?? It’s not all that hard for me to do the cross-browser thing for now.