Re: color text?
wmperry@spry.com
Mon, 1 May 95 19:35:47 EDT
Eric Bina writes:
>
> > "Style sheets" may sound scary, but the proposed STYLE tag for HTML3
> > demystifies it. Let's compare Netscape's color attributes with the
> > Cascading Style Sheet notation:
> >
> > Netscape 1.1:
> >
> > <HEAD>
> > <TITLE>Color Control Example</TITLE>
> > </HEAD>
> > <BODY TEXT="#F0F0F0" BGCOLOR="#000000">
> >
> > Cascading style sheet notation:
> >
> > <HEAD>
> > <TITLE>Color Control Example</TITLE>
> > <STYLE notation=css>font.color=#FFF; back.color=#000</STYLE>
> > </HEAD>
> > <BODY>
> >
> > Not much difference. However, the above example shows just about
> > all you can do with the BODY attributes, while style sheets will give
> > the web much more expressive power:
>
> Except with the STYLE tag, an older browser will display font.color=#FFF;
> back.color=#000 At the top of the document, not very backwards
> compatible.
Except you can also do:
<link rel=stylesheet href=foobar.sty>
which will not be shown by any not-completely-broken browser. With
caching on the client side, this is not that big of a performance hit.
I'm not sure if arena supports the <link> usage right now, but emacs-w3
does
-Bill P.