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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