RE: Cascading Style Sheets usage

Very good question. I would like to use CSS on a few of my upcoming projects
as well. I was wondering if there was a chart somewhere that breaks down
what CSS tags and attributes are supported by what browsers (I think 4.0
versions are the cutoff for support.)

Also, I have heard speculation but not actually seen any proof, that the
(link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="whatever.css") method if placed
between the (head)(/head) tags will make the browser disregard all the font
tags within the page. Is there any proof of this.

Thanks,

ALG2

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org
[mailto:owner-hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org]On Behalf Of Mike Henden
Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2001 6:29 PM
To: hwg-techniques(at)mail.hwg.org
Subject: Cascading Style Sheets usage


Hi all,

I'm currently retro-fitting a site that I designed with CSS, as I
feel that I have more control over font sizes, positioning, etc. I
have also heard that CSS means for faster downloads because pages are
not so bloated with extraneous code that standard HTML pages require
for positioning elements. And obviously if I use an external
stylesheet I can control the appearance of a whole site from one
document.

My question is, how widespread is CSS support? I realise that there
are some CSS tags that are not supported by versions of Netscape and
would like to avoid those where possible. In some cased this means
reverting to cross-browser HTML. However in version 4 browsers
support for font attributes seems fairly consistent, so I am
wondering if I should eliminate my <.font face=""><./font> tags to
simplify file structure and (hopefully) get the kb down, to say
nothing of making it simpler to format new pages : )

Is this a good idea? Does anybody have any advice on this?

T.I.A.

MIKE

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