[ale] Netscape, CSS, and fonts

[Douglas Bridges]

I just downloaded 6.0.1 tonight, and it makes a big difference over 6.0. It
is MUCH more stable and I haven't had it crash on me once in the past 3
hours since I installed it (which is much better than 6.0 was). Netscape
just got 6.0.1 up on their servers today, so I highly recomend upgrading if
you are using NS6.
----- Original Message -----
From: "James CE Johnson" <jcej at tragus.org>
To: ale at ale.org
Cc: "ALE" <ale at ale.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2001 10:18 PM
Subject: Re: [ale] Netscape, CSS, and fonts


> 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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