[ale] Netscape, CSS, and fonts

[s.lastinger at computernetdesign.com]

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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