[WEB4LIB] Re: Beyond Netscape 6

[Tony Barry]

At 8:20 AM -0800 16/11/2000, John Moore wrote:
>The page looks completely different in Netscape 6 and IE 5.5 for me, 
>yet N 6.0 is supposed to be standards compliant.

Just because things are standards compliant does not mean they will 
render a page identically. Font availability, screen size, color 
values all differ at the very least. The value of CSS is that it 
gives a standard way of saying how the author/publisher would like a 
page to appear. The software, running on the hardware, mediated by 
what the reader wants done, produces a result.

Tony
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