CSS 1.X vs. 2.X attributes

[Ceri Davies]

On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 01:25:11PM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> Bearing in mind that:
> 
>     * min-width is a CSS 2.X (but not CSS 1.X) attribute
>     * it may improve the resizing of our front page
>     * the following mini-quote from a discussion me and des@ took part in
> 
> # Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 13:21:17 +0300
> # From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida at ceid.upatras.gr>
> #
> # On 2005-10-10 12:03, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav <des at des.no> wrote:
> # >Giorgos Keramidas <keramida at ceid.upatras.gr> writes:
> # >> How about specifying a minimum of 765px and then a width of 75%?
> # >>
> # >> 	min-width: 765px;
> # >> 	width: 75%;
> # >>
> # >> That should do the trick.
> # >
> # > Ah, I didn't know about min-width; it's not in CSS1.
> #
> # You're right, of course.  It is part of CSS 2.X.  I'm not sure what is
> # the CSS standards level we want to be compatible with, so I'll have to
> # ask the folks at freebsd-www about using min-width or other CSS 2.X
> # attributes.
> 
> What is our current policy (assuming we actually _have_ one) about using
> CSS 1.X vs. 2.X attributes in stylesheets for the web site?

I think it's probably OK.  They'll just get ignored by browsers that
don't understand them, and the alternative in this instance is to not
include it any way as I understand it.

Ceri
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