Can a stylesheet "crash" a browser? Specifically, Netscape Communicator versions 4.7x for Windoze?

Dear Friends of the HWG Style list:

This is my first post to the list.  Howdy!

First of all, thanks to all of you for your excellent questions and
contributions.  Also, thanks to Ed Layzor for the ICQ Active list idea--I
think this resource has real potential as more and more people join it,
worthy comments and cautions notwithstanding.

One of the things I have been most fascinated with in developing styles and
stylesheets has been trying to achieve fairly similar results in both IE and
Navigator/Communicator, and across differing platforms.  Through what must
be my lack of experience and knowledge, I've been having a heck of a time
getting Netscape browsers particularly to behave.  In many cases a small
change to one <H1> style can mangle the formatting within all the styled
text that follows (and is not nested within) it.

What concerns me in this letter is how my own website,
http://www.vipalprem.com is behaving with respect to Netscape and styles.
Apparently my site will crash Netscape 4.7x and reportedly earlier versions
when the stylesheet is activated.  I use Communicator 4.74 for Windows and
if one starts loading among the 5 or so different framesets on my site,
Netscape will crash with page fault errors.  I did some experimenting with
hiding the stylesheet that currently formats the site (by renaming) and I
could no longer get Netscape to "crash".  Therefore, I suspect there is
something goofy about the stylesheet that these versions don't fancy.

I've pasted the text of the sheet verbatim within <PRE></PRE> tags and
posted the it to my site at:
http://www.vipalprem.com/servicios/stylesheet_sample.html, if any of you
would like to take a look and offer me your criticism and/or advice.

Thanks in advance.

Sincerely,
Vipal Prem
Owner - v p & a


v p & a - Vipal Prem and Associates designs and maintains websites, offers
internet and web-related consulting, and much more.  Please visit our site
at:  http://www.vipalprem.com and see what we have to offer.

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