>I wouln't worry too much about Netscape...cover the big ones (IE, firefox,
>opera, safari).

What about AOL. Isn't it's internal browser based on Netscape. And then 
there is it's new external browser based on IE. Does anyone know if it will 
do a better job of supporting CSS than IE?

I can understand Angela's frustration. I feel it too. I was very excited 
about CSS when I first started using it, but poor browser support has 
really dampened my spirits.

I'm not really a web designer, I'm a web application programmer. The html 
pages I code are generally pretty simple and usually contain few or no 
graphics. They often contain tables, not for design, but because I am 
dealing with tabular data. Yet I've spent days trying to get a few simple 
things to  work the way I want them to in the presentation layer. And even 
then it's not ideal because IE doesn't support hover except on anchor tags.

As a programmer, I can pick up a new language quickly, if it is well 
designed, because it is internally consistent in the way it handles things. 
CSS is not consistent - for example, the box model is not implemented the 
same on different types of elements. Coding is largely experimental and 
requires all sorts of ugly hacks and/or compromises.

I have persisted, because I love what it is attempting to do, but it is 
clearly not a mature technology (more like a baby technology). And I wonder 
if the new browser wars will make things better or worse.

Linda H 

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