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Mar 15, 2003, 05:12 #1
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WebTV problems!
Aaaargh!
3 times this week, a webtv user has emailed me telling me that my page is not viewable on webtv.
I thought that I had fixed it, but obviously I haven't.
How can I make my site work on webtv?
Does anybody know of a reference where I can look up which CSS properties are accepted by WebTV?
Unlike most sites, I do care about webtv users - they can fill out forms, receive my newsletter and click on advertisements as well as the next visitor. There also seems to be a lot of them.
I've already created an alternative stylesheet for webtv and I've checked it with the webtv emulator, but I suppose not all webtv sets appear like they do on the emulator I use.
How should I be "sniffing" webtv browsers? At the moment, I look for the substring "webtv" (case insensitive) in the user agent.[mmj] My magic jigsaw
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Mar 15, 2003, 09:01 #2
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Watching this thread with interest!
MSN TV’s browser detection page: http://developer.msntv.com/Develop/browser_sniffing.asp .
I use a 3 column CSS layout, and serve just one stylesheet (at this time) with a very restrictive @import url (“style.css”) statement. WebTV claims they do not support @import, but my visitors and the viewer tell me otherwise.
Another way to hide your incompatible CSS from newer versions of WebTV, is to use an @import statement (at the very begging of your WebTV stylesheet) to bring in the styles that WebTV doesn’t understand.
The WebTV forums are located here: http://communities.msn.com/Developermsntv.
HTHLast edited by JustLurkin77; Mar 15, 2003 at 09:14.
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Mar 30, 2003, 16:56 #3
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It just happened again!
A webTV user emailed me to tell me they were unsubscribing from my newsletter because it didn't look right on her screen.
I found that the jokes no longer fit into the frame of the web-tv screen
I have and I find it difficult to read. This is the only reason why I
decided to unsuscribe.[mmj] My magic jigsaw
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