Re: imbedded or external

At 5:46 PM -0800 2/6/02, Shelley Watson wrote:
>As well, I have tended to use imbedded style sheets rather than external as
>it was my understanding that version 4 x's of Netscape browsers handled the
>imbedded better than the external.  Any comments on this would be
>appreciated and I would much prefer the external style sheet.

I actually haven't found any problems with the way Netscape handled
embedded versus linked style sheets. I think there are many more
advantages to an external style sheet than an embedded one, and I
recommend using external if it fits your needs.

>	I have tried to have my sites degrade gracefully but still 
>manage to muck
>up my CSS.  For instance - took me a bit to figure out that IE 5-6 handles
>font-family:  font-size: 10 pt; just fine whereas Netscape 6 (and probably
>earlier versions) needs 10pt i.e., **no space**. :)

The space shouldn't be used -- by the standard, there's no space allowed.
Internet Explorer may be forgiving, but it's much better to program to
specification whenever possible. That way your code won't go wrong in
programs which do follow the spec religiously.

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