Hi Rog,
CSS is "Cascading Style Sheets" where you prepare an HTML page which
designates the style (fonts, sizes, italics, graphics handling and the
likes) used THROUGHOUT the whole of the site.
When the webmaster wants to change fonts say, he goes to the CSS sheet and
says, "don't use Times Roman,use Arial Sans-Serif instead", and all the type
in all the pages changes as if by magic!
Well. it does in browsers that support it, and it is part of HTML if I
remember correctly.
Regards
Mel
-----Original Message-----
From: Roger Turk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 03 May 2000 19:28
Subject: Re: Why Java script?
>Knowing nothing about javascript, and having heard about a M$ version of it
>that is not 100% compatible with js, I went to M$'s web site the other day
>and did a search on "javascript." I didn't have time to study the material
>in depth, but I recall some examples of how js is supposed to be ignored by
>browsers not capable of reading js or with js disabled.
>
>One technique, IIRC, is to have the js included in an HTML comment, i.e.:
>
><script language = javascript>
><!-- This is the beginning of a comment
>
>javascript
>
>this is the end of the comment -->
></script>
>
>Supposedly, HTML compliant browsers will ignore everything in the comment,
>but javascript compliant browsers will not and will perform the javascript
>operations.
>
>I have seen some pages written with the terms, "cs" and "css,"
>(Coffeescript?) that also seem to give trouble.
>
>As I said, I know nothing about javascript, therefore, I can talk freely
>about it <G>. However, like others, I *would* like Arachne to either be
able
>to *ignore* js or to be *capable* of js. Too many sites now routinely use
js
>for use to continue to campaign against it. (Don Quixote jousting against
>windmills!)
>
>Roger Turk
>Tucson, Arizona USA
>
