Re: C S S - B A S I C Q U E S T I O N

Good question Ray, and with all the comments about Netscape 4.x not 
working right very understandable. I guess the answer depends on why 
you want to learn html for. If it is just a casual hobby or you only 
want to make a home page or two for yourself and family/friends, it 
probably is more trouble than it's worth. In a year or two somebody 
will be making a wysiwyg editor that generates css.

If you want to do this professionally then you don't have a lot of 
choice. The W3C standards are depreciating html styling and 
recommending style sheets. With the big push that Microsoft is 
making toward using XML in all their applications they will certainly 
support xhtml and the style sheets that go with it. And to be honest, 
they have most of the browser market anyway, at least 4/5's of it. 
And Netscape's newest browser does a good job of displaying style 
sheets anyway. As that gets out through AOL and gets its bugs worked 
out, style sheets will be easier to work with.

Besides, EE and NN never did display pages exactly alike anyway. Half 
the html and javascript books out there spend a lot of pages telling 
us what we can do where and how to work around the browser 
differences. What's any different with css?

One book I've found that does a good job of laying out what works 
where and how to compensate is "Cascading Style Sheets: The 
Definitive Guide" by Eric A. Meyer. Somebody else has been praising 
this book here recently. I want to second that. It's remarkably easy 
to read for an O'Reilly book.

best,
Michael




>Hi All
>
>I know a little HTML and am toying with the idea of
>tackling CSS.  But every time I start to work on CSS 
>I run across a note somewhere saying something
>along the lines of ".xxx doesn't work with Netacape"
>or not supported by all browsers, etc, etc.   I'm asking
>myself if it's worth the time to try and learn if CSS is
>not fully supported by most common browsers.
>
>I would sure like to hear some opinions on this
>question from members of this list.
>
>Thanks
>
>Ray

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