Style Sheets

[Sheryl Dwinell]

How do they breakdown when used
>>by older browsers?  What do I gain? More important, what do I loose if I
>>use style sheets?
>>

If you do it correctly, for example, by putting styles in comment tags, the
older browsers will ignore the style sheet information and your pages will
look ok. However, the stylistic elements won't appear on pages viewed in
older browsers that can't interpret style sheets. If you think that it's
important to control something like font colors, and you have a large
number of users who have older browsers, I don't see anything wrong with
using what will work in the older browsers. There are many advantages to
using stylesheets, but if 'plain' HTML (even deprecated tags) work well for
your site & those accessing it, why not use them until the majority of
folks connecting to your site have newer browsers?  The HTML police aren't
going to come banging down your door if you don't use style sheets. :)

Sheryl Dwinell * Cataloger/DBM Librarian/Webmaster
Memorial Library * Marquette University
P.O. Box 3141 * Milwaukee, WI 53201-3141
414-288-3406 * Sheryl.Dwinell at Marquette.edu