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Peter Punk wrote:
> >But what about browsers that can not handle CSS?
> 
> I don't want to look stupid (but i do anyway :-)) but what browser doesn't
> support CSS?

What about Netscape 3.0? On my notebook I still use this browser (it is
a 486, it has a slow internet connection and no cd-rom - I do not wnat
to install a different browser). And at university there are lots of
computers with NS <4 running on AIX and Solaris. Why should I exclude
people using the browser they prefer from viewing my site if I can
obviously serve them quite well by this little trick <code><pre>?

> AFAIK all the major browsers (IE, NS, Opera) do support CSS, the only one i can
> think of that perhaps won't support CSS is Lynx, but since that's a text-mode
> browser, the font is already fixed.

In some browsers you can even turn off CSS support.

I understand that you want to write good html code, but you have to
divide between theory (standards) and practice (browsers and there way
to not completly follow the standards).

Markus