Molly Holzschlag is a web author. Today I got a link to one of her web sites, and a link from there to the accessibility guidelines lifted from the WAI.

Her website is instructive, too. Check out the source code; you will notice she has a linked style sheet designated for design and an @import style sheet designtated for layout. The first one handles fonts families, sizes, colors and the like and is read by nearly all browsers, while the second one is ignored by older browsers that don't get the @ import thing... and that contains the layout features which newer browsers can deal with. You can tell that layout is featured in a style sheet because the central portion, the main content, appears first in the code, then the material for the left navigation and last the material for the righthand links. ONly CSS positioning can do that for you.

I need to read up on @import .. it's not something I understand or have used myself, just read about it on the hwg lists.



-- posted by Palema on 9/24/2002