scouts-l Mail Archive for November of 1999: Building Web Pages
From: Anthony Mako (ajmako@NLS.NET) Date: Fri Nov 05 1999 -
10:48:24 CST  Cheryl (and anyone else who's interested):  First
of all, if the HTML you write is proper for the 3.2 standard, it
won't break. There are several major differences between HTML
3.2 and HTML 4.0, but nothing that should cause too much
trouble. Most of the changes involve greater support for Style
Sheets and many of the tags used to format text have been
"depreciated" (which simply means they're on their way to being
discontinued but should still be supported by a browser). It is
nearly impossible to write a page without using depreciated tags
that will work well in either Netscape or IE. Furthermore,
support for Style Sheets is not universal (IE and Opera support
CSS 2.0, while Netscape only supports CSS 1.0 for instance).
Most of the replacement CSS elements for depreciated HTML tags
are part of the CSS 2.0 standard. The other major difference
between HTML 3.2 and HTML 4.0 i