Cascading Style Sheets & Printing Problems

[Robert Rasmussen]

On Tue, 10 Mar 1998, Donald Barclay wrote:

> A colleague was using Netscape Communicator to access a webpage. Every time
> he tried to print the page, he got an error message and had to close
> Netscape. (He was using a 200 MHz Pentium computer.) 
> 
> I saved the page he wanted to print, looked at the page source, and saw that
> it used cascading style sheets. I removed the style sheet information from
> the page source (it determined the font colors only,) and my colleague was
> able to print the document without a problem. Could the cascading style
> sheets have been the source of the printing problem or was this coincidence? 
> 
> Am I right to be concerned about cascading style sheets? If style sheets can
> mess up a high-end computer with a good connection to the web and a
> late-model web browser, what are they going to do to all those folks out
> there with average machines, ordinary modems, and older browsers?

The machine and the modem certainly have nothing to do with it! 

Cascading Style Sheets definitely could be the cause. (You don't say what
version number your Netscape Communicator is.) CSS is a leading-edge
capability, where I believe IE is ahead of NS.

Regards,
....Bob Rasmussen,   President,   Rasmussen Software, Inc.

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