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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.
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