Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Is it time to rely on CSS?

[Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>]

At 1:21 PM -0500 1/20/03, Norman Walsh wrote:

>Is it time to move that line farther out, removing things that could
>be done with CSS and just expecting CSS to be used?


I vote no. Writing in DocBook and generating HTML gives me all the 
separation of style from content I need. For my HTML I want backward 
compatibility. I want it to work with Mozilla 1.0 to the extent 
possible. OK, that's a little extreme. In practice I'm willing to 
accept Netscape 1.1. But I certainly don't want to depend on CSS for 
anything important. I still see people using Netscape 2, Netscape 3, 
IE 3, and similarly old software. Hell, a month ago I fired up MacWeb 
1.0a3 for a few hours. (Remember that?) Given that both Netscape and 
IE's CSS support was severely lacking until at least version 6 of 
each browser, I can't see relying on it. I won't even say that it's 
good enough in version 6. I just know that Netscape 4 and IE 5 were 
unacceptable in my most recent batch of tests a year or two ago.
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