Re: style declarations

> I guess I have trouble knowing what the "class" means. The verbiage makes
no sense to me. Fortunately no one ever asks me to use this stuff and the
ordinary code works fine in all browsers.<

I'm sorry that my post took too much for granted, but by now several others
have answered more fully to explain the terminology. So I won't go on.

But about the above snip: what is true today won't be for ever, and web
designers will have to understand the "verbiage" to do the job - or at least
use a tool that understands it for them.

(Different people have different outlooks - I am one of those who wants to
know how and why something works as well as what it looks like; others are
interested in the end product alone. Knowing *how* a system works also has
the useful side effect of making it very much easier to find out *why* a
particular implementation doesn't work, of course.)

Some of my clients do ask for the use of styles; the others don't care as
long as I make a page that's quick to load and looks like they wanted. And
to do that, I find that styles are efficient. But YMMV.

Lois

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