1.6 Browser Support
Windows
Internet Explorer 5.x- Internet Explorer 6.0
Internet Explorer 7.0- Internet Explorer 8.0
Macintosh OS
Camino 0.6+
Linux
Konqueror 3.3+
Galeon 1.3+
Epiphany 1.4.8+
Lynx (Textbrowser)
- All operating systems
Firefox 1.0+
Mozilla Suite 1.7.1+
SeaMonkey 1.0+
Apple Safari 1.0.3+
Google Chrome 1.0+
Netscape 8.0+
Opera 6+
The browsers listed here are completely supported: YAML-based layouts will be consistent in all of them.
A plus sign (+) after the version number means that all later versions should work just as well with YAML.
1.7 IE 5/Mac, Netscape 4 & Co.
Internet Explorer 5 for the Macintosh and Netscape 4 -- as well as all other outdated browsers -- have their own special place in YAML's support.
Outdated browsers have great difficulty displaying modern CSS layouts. It makes sense to keep this actual CSS completely hidden from these browsers -- as it would only confuse them -- and thus still allow the user access to the actual content.
YAML's CSS building blocks use the rules of @import or @media to deal with this problem. Internet Explorer 5/Mac, Netscape 4x, and many other outdated browsers are incapable of interpreting one or the other of these rules, and so are automatically shunted away from the modern CSS declarations. Users see the complete content: unformatted, but legible.
Certain versions of Netscape are known to crash at the sight of a mere floated picture. The consistent use of the shunting principle for aged browsers allows all users access to the content.
In short: outdated browsers are supported by YAML in such a way as to allow users to read the content without being hampered by incomplete CSS interpretation. Content is visible in the browser's standard design, similar in appearance to text browser interpretations (i.e. Lynx).
