[ale] Netscape, CSS, and fonts

[James CE Johnson]

I've been trying out Netscape6 for the last few days.  It has a lot of rough edges
but great promise.  If you dig deep enough you'll eventually find that even though
they call it "6" its really a 1.0 browser.  With the Mozilla source base they've
gone back to the drawing board to rebuild things from the ground up.

If you're a Netscape fan but about ready to give up on 'em completely then you owe
it to yourself to try either NS6 or the latest Mozilla.  The new W3C compliance
rocks.  I can do things with DHTML now that only my IE buddies could do before.  If
nothing else, install one or the other & then try out those pages that you like so
much in IE5.5.  I think you'll be pleased.

s.lastinger at computernetdesign.com wrote:

> In a nutshell, stop using netscape and try out the latest nightly
> mozilla build : )
>
> I think you will be nicely surprised:
>
> ftp://mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/nightly/
>
> -Stephen
>
> On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Dan Newcombe wrote:
> > From: Dan Newcombe <Newcombe at mordor.clayton.edu>
> > To: ALE <ale at ale.org>
> > Subject: [ale] Netscape, CSS, and fonts
> >
> >
> > I have a page I am updating (http://duck.clayton.edu/index-new2.html). It
> > uses some basic CSS stuff in it, and looks mostly pretty in IE5.5.  Some
> > changes left to make, but it works for now.
> >
> > I pulled it up in Netscape on Win and it looked okay.  I then tried it in
> > Netscape 4.75 on Linux, and it looks horid.  The problem is that for some
> > elements, I have a style that says to use Arial, Helvetica, or Sans-Serif
> > for the font...yet on Netscape on Linux, even though Helvetica is there,
> > it refuses to use it.  I've tried telling it to use other fonts, and it
> > still won't.
> >
> > I put an image of it in NS at http://duck.clayton.edu/YUCK.jpg
> >
> > What do I need to do to get the Linux netscape to view this properly?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >       -Dan
> >
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