CSS2 and Core Styles

[Tony Barry]

At 7:55 AM 1998/05/13, Bill Drew wrote:
>Maybe I'm a little slow but I really don't understand what is to be
>gained from style sheets.  I don't see the real difference between such
>things as <b></b> or <strong></strong> when I get exactly the same
>result.

The big difference is that a change in a style sheet can affect thousands
of pages. Changing tags just affects one. Its like using styles in a good
word processing software like AppleWorks. It saves you time and effort and
appeals to the lazy in me.

Tony


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