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Subject: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: Is it time to rely on CSS?
At 10:51 AM -0600 1/21/03, Adam DiCarlo wrote: >I disagree. Even Netscape 4, the worst standards-supporting browser >in use at all today (and obsolete too) supports much of CSS1. You're kidding yourself. I routinely see older browsers in use going back as far as Netscape 1.1. >Even if Netscape 4 didn't support CSS1, why should we sacrifice the >convenience of style formatting for 95% of the authors/users because >of the bugginess of the 5% ? Anyhow, even if the 5% can't see the >style, surely the document would still be legible to them. I'm not willing to throw away 5% of readers to satisfy some ideological notion of HTML purity. I will only move forward to new technologies when they are truly ubiquitous or provide features I need that are simply not available using the old techniques. CSS doesn't meet that criteria. It doesn't help me do anything I need to do with my DocBook books I can't do with plain HTML. -- +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | Elliotte Rusty Harold | elharo@metalab.unc.edu | Writer/Programmer | +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | Processing XML with Java (Addison-Wesley, 2002) | | http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xmljava | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0201771861/cafeaulaitA | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+ | Read Cafe au Lait for Java News: http://www.cafeaulait.org/ | | Read Cafe con Leche for XML News: http://www.cafeconleche.org/ | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+
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