June 2010 Edition
Computer Science Department, University of Cape Town
| MSc-IT Study Material June 2010 Edition Computer Science Department, University of Cape Town |
Browser dependency - Style sheets format things slightly differently on different browsers. Unfortunately, browsers have different support for HTML and style sheets. Newer browsers have largely converged on HTML support so that HTML documents look the same across different browsers. The state of style sheet support is somewhat worse, largely because style sheets are newer than HTML.
Old Browsers - Some very old browsers (such Netscape Navigator 2) do not support style sheets.
All in all, style sheets have only minor disadvantages, and should be used when developing websites.
Read up on style sheets on your text books. Can you see any advantages or disadvantages that have not been presented here? Also use the Internet to find out more about the usage of style sheets. A good starting place is the W3C's section on style sheets.