Re: Cascading Style Sheets usage

by "Bob" <webguy(at)re-data.com>

 Date:  Wed, 6 Jun 2001 07:23:03 -0700
 To:  <alg2(at)alg2.com>,
"'Mike Henden'" <mike.henden(at)xtra.co.nz>,
<hwg-techniques(at)mail.hwg.org>
 References:  spielmaschine
  todo: View Thread, Original
> what CSS tags and attributes are supported by what browsers (I think 4.0
> versions are the cutoff for support

Here you go.......
http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/reference/browser_chart/
all you want is here

and if anybody is in Oregon I wanna brewski also

bob
----- Original Message -----
From: "ALG2dotCom" <alg2(at)alg2.com>
To: "'Mike Henden'" <mike.henden(at)xtra.co.nz>; <hwg-techniques(at)mail.hwg.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 6:05 AM
Subject: 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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