Hi
of gif images. Oh, and while I am on about my pet hates on Web pages, how about the non-wrapping page that requires full screen display on a 17" monitor to display the page in full because its designer happened to have a 21" monitor at their disposal.
Expect a lot more of this when style sheets start to be used more. Experience here suggests that staff were very slow to get to grips with style sheets in Word. I am sure that many people will publish poor pages using WWW style sheets, perhaps with good content, but with no thought for what hardware/software the reader at the other end has at his disposal.
One of the advantages of style sheets is that they *cascade*. Theoretically, this means that you as the viewer can override any (within certain limits) specification from the author with your own. So, if they provide a poor stylesheet, you can override some or all of it from your own. This should actually *improve* matters Check out http://www.w3.org/ for the latest information I'm not in the slightest bit surprised that people have problems with word stylesheets - the implementation is very poor, particularly as they do not prevent other modifications being applied directly to the paragraph.
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