Re: Why style sheets  John Udall ( Fri, 17 Jan 1997 18:20:41
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From: John Udall <> Subject: Re: Why style sheets Cc: (Eric
Holstege)  At 12:06 PM 1/17/97 -0800, you wrote: >I understand
all the arguments in favor of style sheets in terms of being
able  >to change the global look of an entire site in one place,
but it seems to me  >that I can do this with some intellignece
about my markup conventions, and a  >global search and replace.
>Why should I pay the penalty of two HTTP accesses per page (one
for the text,          Then use the STYLE attribute within the
tags.  It's not as maintainable, but it cuts you to one fewer
HTTP access.  >Also, why is it worse to add HTML tags or tag
attributes than to add style  >properties. There are well
defined rules for ignoring unknown HTML tags and  >attributes.
Perhaps someone could explain.         I'll take a crack at it,
perhaps others can add more detail.          Just adding new
tags willy-nilly to HTML can