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Re: [css-d] CSS and AOL

Sent by Eric A. Meyer on 11 June 2002 10:10


At 10:03 -0400 6/11/02, Kevin Smith wrote:
>On 06.10.2002 6:47 PM, Freda Lockert wrote:
>
>>  AOL7 (Win 98) - IE6.
>
>AOL on Windows uses whatever version of IE it finds. So, while it may be
>true that AOL7 installs IE6, that's not necessarily what's being used. The
>user could install IE5x, blowing away IE6, or (in the future) upgrade to
>IE>6.

    That's correct.  When my parents recently got a new Dell, it came 
with Windows XP (and, thus, IE6) plus AOL6.  I quickly determined, 
thanks to its particular behavior in rendering various CSS-based 
designs, that AOL6 was using the IE6 engine to render Web pages.  It 
was kind of weird.

--
Eric A. Meyer (http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/), List Chaperone
"CSS is much too interesting and elegant to be not taken seriously."
   -- Martina Kosloff (http://www.mako4css.com/)
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