CSS Assignment 5 - CSS Level 2

The Assignment ....

Your project for this week:

Choose one aspect of CSS2 that doesn't exist in CSS1. This can be anything you like, from Aural Style Sheets to improved positioning. This should be something you didn't know about before.
Write a short summary of what you learned, and what it should do, in a compliant browser. (Note: You don't have to write well; this isn't English class.)
Include an example of the CSS2 feature in your page itself. Realizing, of course, that it won't work in all browsers, or at this stage of the game, not even most browsers.
For extra credit, you can throw in a gratuitous use of display if you like.

The results ....

The pull quote actually comes from the review question, it here to test it out.

This is my pull quote. Only seems to work in Netscape Navigator.

This assignment is designed to test the features of the proposed CSS2 standard, which is defined at the W3C CSS2 page. You will notice that the anchor link has the :hover pseudo class. The text of the link will change colour and size in supported browsers (e.g. IE 4.0).

I'm interested in the implementation of the "counter" elements of CSS2. I have implemented these on all of the headings in this document, but, as they are not supported you can't see them. If they were to work the first heading would be called "1", the subheadings (H2) "1.1", "1.2" etc and the third level headings (H3) "1.1.1", "1.1.2" etc. Nice feature, waiting for it to be here for real.

Then what have I learnt from all this? I guess, as the first point it depends on the scope of the question. If the scope is CSS2 and its acceptance by the current releases of the web browsers then I've learnt that basically not much is supported. If the scope of the question is CSS1 then I've learnt it depends on what you try to do, and on what browser you try to view it on. At the current time (quarter 1 1999) it seems that CSS has a lot of potential, but it is not there yet due to the lack of support. However, there maybe situations where it could be used, e.g. on corporate intranets where the web browser is dictated by the corporation.

After this paragraph is the gratuitous use of display element. Depending on your browser you will see a message, or NOT ;=)

**** CSS may take off in the new millennium ****

Did you see the message? This is not it - there is something else.

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