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From: Keith Patton
Date: Mar 17, 2004 8:47AM

Hi,
Yep, it's a trade off.

I try and do things in 2 stages...

1. code to web standards (XHTML 1/HTML 4)
2. employ hacks/workarounds for backwards-compatibility and/or to overcome
inconsistent implementation of standards in target browsers

So you have future-proof code with some messiness in your style sheets to
cater for the messiness of some browsers standards implementations of lack
thereof!

Keith Patton

Ethical Media
www.ethicalmedia.com