[ale] Let's try this again. Stuck on HTML problem.

[Byron A Jeff]

> 
> Byron,
> 
> I don't know if this will help, but have you tried Netscape 6 pre
> release 2?  (mozilla)  Things in general  look prettier, and it
> doesn't seem slow or crash as much as earlier versions of mozilla.  It
> is a big download, but it does install separately from your
> 'production' version of netscape. 

Vernard downloaded and showed me a copy this week. It was so infernally slow as
to be completely unusable.

I'll stop complaining and start to figure out how to write some javascript that
will do a rollover popup and change the image based on the coordinates of
where the mouse is sitting. However it's a PITA compared to just being able
to set the style.

BAJ
> 
> -Eric.
> 
> Byron A Jeff writes:
>  > > 
>  > > Have you tried
>  > > 
>  > > Zero
>  > 
>  > Douglas,
>  > 
>  > That works. But it isn't a menu. I need something that pops up a list, gets
>  > a selection, and leaves that selection after the list disappears, in that
>  > size 100 font.
>  > 
>  > And BTW, with netscape none of the styles for fonts will work without a
>  > "font-family: " directive listed. Netscape will just ignore it.
>  > 
>  > And to repeat, it seems a true type font renderer is required for Netscape
>  > to do such scalable fonts. Since I still use Slackware I had to do it by hand:
>  > 
>  > - I downloaded and installed xfstt.
>  > - I pulled Microsoft's TT fonts (http://www.microsoft.com/truetype). Note that
>  >   the Win32 package isn't a self extracting ZIP file, only the Win16 3.1 
>  >   package is. Also I never could get the Mac package to download at all.
>  > - Drop in the fonts, sync with xfstt, and fire up the font manager.
>  > - Now netscape sees the TT fonts and you can select as the default fonts.
>  > 
>  > It also makes all the rest of the pages that Netscape renders look so much
>  > better. I plan to install TT on all my machines.
>  > 
>  > BAJ
>  > > >
>  > > > Strider Centaur wrote:
>  > > > >
>  > > > >     I don't think you can, SELECT is limited to the format defined in
>  > > > > netscape/IE, and I believe that is very limited on formatting.
>  > > > >
>  > > > >     Try using Radio Button, Check Box or Anchor Tags combined with the
>  > > FONT tag
>  > > > > instead of select.  For instance:
>  > > > >
>  > > > > <A HREF="scriptname?value=0><FONT SIZE=+4>Zero</FONT></A>
>  > > > > One</FONT>
>  > > >
>  > > > Actually you can wrap the whole select in a <font size=+N> tag.  I
>  > > > suggested this in a private email to the original requester.
>  > > 
>  > > And that does work but it isn't nearly the size font I wanted. With style
>  > > sheets I can generate fonts 10 times bigger than the biggest <FONT SIZE...>
>  > > directive.
>  > > 
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