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From: mcnab@sp056.cern.ch (Andrew Mcnab)
Subject: Re: Survey: Do you use Netscape 2.0?
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In article <47at0e$7jm@bubba.NMSU.Edu>, jholder@nmsu.edu (John Holder) writes:
|>
|>John looks about worriedly, and asks: "Those of you who use web browsers, 
|>which ones do you use?  The time has come for me to (finally) HTMLify Jool's 
|>FAQ, and I want to know if I should use Netscape 2.0-specific commands 
|>(there are a couple i really like), or if I should be a bit more 
|>traditional - even supporting Lynx.  Or both, somehow."
|>
|>John is here, awaiting your answer.
|>

Definately use only HTML 2.0 for a FAQ. Only about 80% of people use
Netscape, and most of those are not Netscape 2.0 yet. What are the other
20% supposed to do? 

Some HTML 3.0 things implemented in Netscape 2.0 are safe: anything
which appears only as an attribute on a tag eg <P ALIGN=CENTER> is fine
for any browser since ALIGN=CENTER will be ignored by any browser which
doesn't recognise it. Note <P ALIGN=CENTER> and <H1 ALIGN=CENTER> are
from the HTML 3.0 draft standard whereas <CENTER> is just a Netscapism. 

If this develops into an HTML discussion would someone redirect it to
comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html please.

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