Re: CSS inheritance - newbie question

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Larry Coats <lcoats(at)gte.net>
Subject: Re: CSS inheritance - newbie question

| I thought it might be worth pointing out one little pitfall.

always :-)

| If you're interested in supporting IE 3 users, IE 3 recognizes 
| individual font properties such as font-family and font-weight, but it 
| does not recognize the shorthand font property and will ignore it. It's 
| just the opposite on the background property: it recognizes the 
| shorthand background property, but ignores more specific properties such 
| as background-color.

:-( didn't know that, are you sure (eh, sorry)?
in general, shorthands are supposed to be safer with older browsers.
unfortunately i don't have any 1st hand experience with that,
and can't install ie3 or ie4, but was happy to find this site recently:
http://www.endoframe.com/css/ie3.html
they don't mention it, neither does eric meyer
http://www.webreview.com/style/css1/charts/mastergrid.shtml
not all font properties are fully supported, but the shorthand should work
(as i understand it)

sheers, eric

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