> Seems to me, if everyone who wants to have customized funky colors on their
> home page has their own style-sheet, then the style-sheet above usually
> will NOT be in my cache.
>
> Even if it is in my cache, the browser should at least to a ping to the serve
> to see if the document has changed from the cached version.
>
> Both of these require a second net connection which can be a LARGE overhead.
Jesus H Klortho on a stick.
Are you still trying to convince people that Netscape's enhancements
(which, BTW, you did *not* "propose for HTML 3.0", unless you count
<URL:http://www.acl.lanl.gov/HTML_WG/html-wg-95q1.messages/0106.html>
and
<URL:http://www.acl.lanl.gov/HTML_WG/html-wg-95q1.messages/0114.html>
as a "proposal") are a better solution than stylesheets?
Well, Netscape's <BODY> element BACKGROUND attribute will cause
just as many cache misses as external stylesheets will if everyone
who wants to have a customized funky background uses a local .GIF to
achieve this effect. And yes, <STYLE> elements in the document head
show up wrong under "older browsers", including Netscape 1.1 beta.
That's why people who use <STYLE> are supposed to label documents
which use it as "text/x-html3" or "text/html; level=3". If they don't,
that's their fault. But if Netscape 1.1 claims to support the draft
HTML 3 spec and it still barfs on <STYLE> elements, that's NCOM's fault.
--Joe English
joe@trystero.art.com