Font Sizes and Netscape 6

Sorry for the WOB and Non-P-Car content. I just loaded Netscape 6 - interesting features and colors.
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One curious quirk, however, is that the text typeface and font size in the posts on this BBS change - the first sentence may be Times and then the second sentence or paragraph is Arial. When I force Arial, then the size changes in mid-post, going from size 1 to 2 or vice versa. Anyone else notice this quirk, or is it just me? By the way, the same thing happen over on the PCA Potomac BBS which uses the same Ultimate BBS software.
Chuck

That's because most web developers have abandoned the old style of specifying fonts and sizes that is compatibile with Netscape.

Netscape usage has fallen by the wayside. Most people run Internet Explorer. Therefore most web devs (myself included) simply code to IE if possible since it's easier to style pages this way. Netscape, in a word, sucks. There's a few developers out there who still code pages the old way, but they do so out of protest to Microsoft setting a new standard. Morally right or not, the IE browser is technically superior to Netscape due to its support of the new XML, XHTML and DHTML standards. In other words, it does more than Netscape's browser does now.

Sorry to break the news to you...to summarize, simply run IE and your problems will go away.

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Mark Szabo
1986 911 Targa 3.2

I tried the prerelease NS 6.0 and dumped it immediately. I have no problems with NS 4.08 coexisting with IE 5, and no display problems with fonts on NS 4.08, either!

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Warren Hall
1973 911S Targa

Hi Mark!,

Oh how I'd love to get to into that one with you!
There is some truth in what you say, but It's not as cleat cut as you make out. And anyhow Netscape 6 makes up a lot ground. The mozilla engine is way faster than IE for a start.

But having said that Im mostly a Mac guy and, it pains me to say it, IE 5 in the Mac is way kewl.

Anyway this is a Porsche board and not the forum for this stuff

P-content: Have you noticed how many IT people are into Porsches?
Anyone else out there involved with IT or new media?

Have fun!

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911 2.7S Targa
email:alex@cascade.f9.co.uk

NS6 does regain some ground on IE 5/5.5 in the area of standards compliance, XML, CSS etc. However, in my un-scientific testing so far it is WAY slower than IE and probably NS4 too. I sincerely hope that AOL keeps Netscape strong enough to survive the browser wars, especially for us multi-platform folks -- what if we didn't have a decent browser for UNIX/Linux at all??? But for Wintel platforms I use IE and fire up Netscape only when testing stuff.

OK, back to Porsches now...

alex:

"P-content: Have you noticed how many IT people are into Porsches?
Anyone else out there involved with IT or new media?"

yep, count me in

obin robinson

(network administrator/MIS)

Yep, me too... 34 years in I.S. --- thought I confess to liking my P-cars WITHOUT computers on them!

Um....there's not a lot of industries out there who are willing to pay "young pups" like us the kind of dough it takes to maintain a 911

Not that I make more than $9 an hour yet, but I hope to get my nickel raise soon!

Oh, Alex - I just finished up developing a Netscape-friendly page, so I had to vent I understand. I'm really lashing out more at the lack of standards. Don't take me seriously as far as that stuff goes.

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Mark Szabo
1986 911 Targa 3.2

ARRGH...I just learned that a bunch of my stuff (that's been working for years) is hosed on NS6 too...lucky me.

Another IT guy here (12 years) currently a Network/Desktop admin. I have not used NS6 yet, but I have read that Netscape/AOL wrote NS6 from scratch rather than carrying all the old baggage along from previous versions. If that's the case, I'm sure NS6.xx is not to far away (which is why I have waited) and will correct many current bugs (uncompleted features). And yes, I too use IE primarily.