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

[Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo at metalab dot unc dot edu>]

At 2:38 PM -0500 1/20/03, Jeff Beal wrote:
> I agree with Elliotte.  I think the key point of his post is "I certainly
> don't want to rely on CSS for anything important."  I would support the idea
> of going one direction with the XHTML stylesheets and another direction with
> the HTML stylesheets.  That way, those for whom backwards compatibility is
> not an issue can push the envelope all the way with XHTML and CSS2, no holds
> barred, and the rest of us can continue as before.
Yes, browsers that support XHTML generally support CSS as well. 
However, this tends to only be >= IE6/Mozilla 1.0/Netscape 7
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