What About Non-Conforming Browsers?

You can expect that visitors to your site use a variety of different browsers. Some of these browsers do not support CSS at all and totally ignore any styles that you set, but some imperfectly support CSS. Earlier, I characterized browsers that imperfectly support CSS1 as first-generation CSS-browsers, and characterized browsers that support most (at least 90 percent) of CSS1 as second-generation CSS-browsers.

✓ If you want to review the earlier discussion of first-, second-, and third-generation CSS-browsers, see “Implementation of CSS in Browsers,” p. 17 (chapter 1).

Non-Supporting Browsers

Of the major browsers, these versions don't support CSS at all: Opera 3.5 and earlier versions, Netscape Navigator ...

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