XHTML / CSS Help Needed - Netscape Visual Problem

[Geshrael]

Hey all;

I am doing a bit of design-work for a website and while doing some browser compatibility testing, I found that I got a weird error from Netscape. I am testing with NS9 and the problem is the footer.

The design is 95% div layers and the footer is also a div layer.

This is my coding:

<div id="bottomLinks"><span class="bottomLinks"><a href="about.html">About</a> | <a href="services.html">Services</a> | <a href="portfolio.html">Portfolio</a> | <a href="store.html">Store</a> | <a href="links.html">Links</a> | <a href="contact.html">Contact</a><br />
<a href="http://validator.w3.org/check/referer">
<img src="layout/xhtml.png" alt="w3c xhtml transitional 1.0 validated" width="68" height="30" hspace="5" vspace="5" border="0" /></a>
<a href="copyright.html" target="new"><img src="layout/allrightsreserved.png" alt="all rights reserved copyright information" width="88" height="31" hspace="5" vspace="0" border="0" /></a>
<a href="http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/check/referer" target="new">
<img src="layout/css.png" alt="w3c css 2.1 validated" width="53" height="30" hspace="5" vspace="5" border="0" /></a><br />
© Copyright 2009 Broken Wing Productions. All Rights Reserved.
</span></div>

And here is the CSS:

#bottomLinks{
position:absolute;
width:848px;
height:95px;
margin-top:30px;
margin-left:-30px;
background-color:#5C2432;
z-index:-1;
}
.bottomLinks{
position:relative;
font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size:.75em;
letter-spacing:1px;
color:#fcfcfc;
top:15px;
width:100%;
}
.bottomLinks a:link{
font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size:1em;
letter-spacing:1px;
color:white;
}
.bottomLinks a:visited{
font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size:1em;
letter-spacing:1px;
}
.bottomLinks a:active{
font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size:1em;
letter-spacing:1px;
}
.bottomLinks a:hover{
font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size:1em;
letter-spacing:1px;
}

The doctype is XHTML Transitional 1.0. The location of the mockup is: http://brokenwingproductions.com/tmp2/index2.html

Thanks for any help you can offer! PLEASE NO SPAM. Bumps are welcome.

[The Last Rydian]

Netscape is old crap, abandoned, years old. Infact yesterday was the one-year birthday of the entire project being DROPPED, the original creators don't even work on it anymore.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netscape_Communications_Corporation

Quote:

As of July 2008, IE accounted for 73.01% of the browser market, Firefox 19.03% and Netscape 0.67%, according to Internet metrics firm NetApplications.

If the issue only happens on netscape, forget about it.

[Geshrael]

Regardless, as a web designer I like to cover all my bases, especially when I look up my Web Analyst and find people still going onto my website using Netscape. Though, I am aware the project was dropped a while ago and long have I been with Netscape...

And the dreaded Mac!

But, as I said, I like to cover all my bases. I do compatibility tests with the top ten browsers (PC mainly, MAC if I can find one to do testing on) and the two dated ones people still use: Firefox, Inernet Explorer, SeaMonkey, Netscape, Opera, Mozilla (dated even more so than NS!), Safari, Flock, K-Meleon, Avant, Google Chrome & Maxthon.

I do appreciate your comment though. XD But, I mean, it is kind of like disregarding people with ME, even though tons of people have Vista and XP. You still gotta be aware some people are still running on Windows 2000!

[Caitlyn McKenzie]

But there will always be people using older and older browsers. Are you going to make your site compatible with IE5.5 as well? There's a point where you have to decide whether it's worth it or not. Netscape is such a miniscule amount of viewers that it isn't worth your time to try and make the site work perfectly. As long as it works at all you should be happy.

[Geshrael]

Eh...

My thinking is like this: If I work with Mozilla and fix Mozilla issues, I should fix Netscape issues too.

Trust me, if it wasn't a website that is MINE and is for MY company I wouldn't bother with it unless specified by the client. Heck, if I had a copy of AOL Browser I would use THAT too.

I always assumed AOL Browser was IE-based. Wikipedia says it's NS based. Weird.