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Table not working correctly in Netscape 4.7

The following code works correctly in the latest version of Netscape, however the width of each cell doesn't seem to work correctly in Netscape 4.7. Any help would be much appreciated. Here is the code:

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="1" width="740">
<tr>
<td colspan="15"> <img src="image1.jpg" width="201" height="79" alt="" border="0"><img src="top_menu_image2.jpg" width="200" height="79" alt="" border="0"><a href="/index.cfm"><img src="logo.gif" width="339" height="79" alt="" border="0"></a></td>
</tr>
<tr valign="middle">
<td width="70" class="menu"><a href="/test/" class="menutext">Test</a></td>
<td><img src="whitebar.gif" width="1" height="27" alt="" border="0"></td>
<td width="82" class="menu"><a href="/test2/" class="menutext">Test2</a></td>
<td><img src="whitebar.gif" width="1" height="27" alt="" border="0"></td>
<td width="214" class="menu"><a href="/test3/" class="menutext">Test3</a></td>
<td><img src="whitebar.gif" width="1" height="27" alt="" border="0"></td>
<td width="70"class="menu"><a href="/test4/" class="menutext">Test4</a></td>
<td><img src="whitebar.gif" width="1" height="27" alt="" border="0"></td>
<td width="76" class="menu"><a href="/test5/" class="menutext">Test5</a></td>
<td><img src="whitebar.gif" width="1" height="27" alt="" border="0"></td>
<td width="152" class="menu"><a href="/test6/" class="menutext">Test6</a></td>
<td><img src="whitebar.gif" width="1" height="27" alt="" border="0"></td>
<td width="70" class="menu"><a href="/test7/" class="menutext">Test7</a></td>
</tr>
<tr><td colspan="15"><img src="spacer.gif" width="1" height="10" alt="" border="0"></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="15"><img src="spacer.gif" width="1" height="1" alt="" border="0"></td></tr>
</table>

The CSS for this is:
.menu {
background-color:#003163;
height:27px;
border-top-width: 1px;
border-bottom-width: 1px;
border-left-width: 0px;
border-right-width: 0px;
border-style: solid;
border-color: #FFFFFF;
text-align:center;
}
.menutext {
font-size:11px;
font-family : Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-weight: bold;
color:#FFFFFF;
text-decoration: none;
}

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Joeposter649,
Thanks, I can't believe I missed that. That helped get rid of the whitespace at the end of the row, which was the main problem.

The only problem now is the width of the columns still seems to be off.

Cobol,
I am not real worried if the borders don't work, but it would be real nice to make the width work correctly. Is there any way to do this? And yes I know how old NS4 is, but I need to make this page compatible with as many browsers as possible.

COBOLdinosaur

>>>Is there any way to do this?
-- Browser detection and then generate browser specific code with scripting; virtually imposible to maintian over time.

-- Seperate style sheets for each browser

-- Seperate pages for each browser

-- Code to the lowest level of support and don't any advance elements.

In the end it really comes down to whether supporting a browser that is no longer in general is worth degrading the performance of browsers that are in use.

Based on current stats there is absolutely no business case to support doing anything for Netscrape 4 unless all of the 0.2% of users still using it visit your site, and generate revenue for you. Because everything you have to do to support NS4 reduces the quality of the site for users of modern browsers and some of them will go to sites that are more standards friendly.

Cd&

Zyloch

I agree with Cd, whoever still has NS4 and uses it will be so old they'll die soon. There's a certain boundary between supporting so much and supporting too much. I usually code for NS6+ and IE6, although most of the code should work for IE4+ theoretically. Anything lower than NS6 and IE4, you wouldn't have to worry about, and no one really has IE4 anymore... It's all up to you, but I'd repeat that anything lower than IE4 or NS6, you're not going to be doing anything with Javascript. You might as well use a server-side language and refresh the page everytime you want something changed.

Zyloch

EDIT:: Maybe IE4 is even too low, I'd say IE5 to be on the safe side