If you're displaying a Web site, however, and want to open a local file, you'll have to go through the whole tedious process described above. Compatibility Traditionally, Explorer has lagged behind Navigator in terms of Javascript capability, but I'm happy to report that Explorer 5.0 features greatly expanded Javascript support. Every few months I make another determined effort to convert all my pages to CSS-compliant code, but every time I run into so many problems with differences between the two browsers that I finally give up in disgust, and go back to using my wicked old FONT tags and other relics. A handy tool for testing CSS compliance is the CSS Test Suite , so I gave both Explorer 5.0 and Navigator 4.5 a quick run through here. Both browsers implement the basics, but Explorer supports a lot more of CSS, although it too has a few quirks.
Navigator still seems to have trouble with styles in tables.
Alas, it's not supported by either browser. The two browsers have differing opinions about what size text should be, and how much leading should be inserted between lines. This means that the same paragraph will be of slightly different lengths in the two browsers. When one depends on tables to set up magazine-like columns, this means that nothing ever lines up quite right. There's a new Lizard in town.