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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	I agree that old browsers are important. However, what the author of your book isn't mentioning is that a CSS-based page, if it is well made (meaning that there is no style mixed in with the HTML markup), it will "degrade gracefully" in older browsers. That means that it won't appear exactly as you intended it to; the browser may ignore some of the CSS. But it will still be fully readable, and all of the content will be accessable to the user. Let me use my own page as an example. If you go to [url=http://www.slimeland.com/]http://www.slimeland.com/[/url] with a recent browser (which is what you probably have), you'll probably see a sidebar on the left with a lot of text on the right, and an image in the upper left. Now, if you go to the same page in an older browser, for instance, Netscape Navigator 4.x, it will look similar but not exactly the same. The sidebar will still be on the left, but it will have borders where it shouldn't. The headings in the text won't look quite the same. But all the text will be there for you to read; while the CSS isn't working 100%, no information is being blocked out. Finally, if you go to the same page in a really old text browser, like Lynx, you'll see the following: [quote] Slime Update Crackers and Cheese After working halfway through Gannon?s tower in A Link to the Past and making significant progress on my latest JavaScript.... [/quote] At the bottom of the page will be the sidebar, formatted as a list of hyperlinks. Since its a text browser, no images will be shown and the layout of the page will be very linear (top to bottom). If the page were based on tables, the order might be strange, and things such as headings wouldn't appear as headings. That's why it's important to use good markup (for instance, the <h1> tag for your main heading, instead of <font size="7"> or something like that). That's what makes older browsers render a page well. Loading...
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