RE: meaning of deprecated

Jim
thanks.  that's terrific advice.  I am studying a lot of things right now
and will add that to the list.  But CSS would certainly solve many of my
complaints about HTML.  So you are absolutely right.
thanks so much for taking the time for this thoughtful explanation.
Kate

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Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 5:07 PM
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Subject: Re: meaning of deprecated


> I studied CSS last year in an HWG class and my feeling after fussing with
> Netscape lack of rendering of the code was that CSS was just a waste of
time
> for the present except for the most basic use. I believe now NN 6.0 is
> supposed to be a huge improvement but I haven't worked with it.  I still
> find it frustrating every time I try it.

Kate:

I think most of us get frustrated with CSS. My advantage is that I
started professionally working with web sites when CSS was implemented
by MSIE 3.0, then expanded with Netscape 4.x. Unfortunately, given the
MSIE 3.0 is free, there was little money left to develope Netscape (they
did not have an Operating System to fund their development efforts, just
some web servers and a portal).

Anyway, given my background, I've grown up in the industry having to
work around the earlier and buggy implementations of MSIE and Netsape
CSS, and also having to find common ground between the two.

I would recommend that you avail yourself of some the the resources out
there that detail what parts of CSS are safe. It might be good to go and
do something like to simply write down those parts of CSS that are safe
and memorize them.

After a certain point, you no longer are frustrated (other than over how
CSS1 and CSS2 COULD be properly implemented), and move to enjoyment.
Even given the limited number CSS1 and CSS2 features that are ''safe'',
there is a wealth of formatting features that are available.

On thing to also do is to work around discovering which CSS1/2 features
degrade nicely with older browsers or browser that have buggy CSS
implementation of one kind or another.

keep on keeping on, it is worth it.
--


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