Text/Background Colors in Netscape

[Rich Harrington]

Hello all,

   Here's an interesting dillemma that I just had to deal with.  I seem to
recall that some of it was discussed recently.

   We have two publically accessable Internet terminals, running Windows
3.11 with Direct Access for Windows as the shell, and Netscape locked up
with IKIOSK.  One of the things I disabled with IKIOSK was the
Options/General Preferences... menu.  After all, I didn't want anyone
getting in there and changing the colors to black on black or something.  So
it's permanently set to display the page the way it was written.

   Well, of course, someone getting info from the Sega site tried to print a
page that was white text on a black background.  Netscape apparently then
sends white text to the printer, which then prints a blank page.

   So, unless someone has a great idea I haven't thought of, my choices are
either forcing Netscape to use my combination of background colors and text,
and not have the pages show up as the author intended on the screen; or, to
have the pages displayed as the author intended and say, "Sorry!" to anyone
who wants to print (or, individually change the settings, print, then change
them back for each patron who encounters this problem).

   I'm leading toward the former:  forcing Netscape to use my settings.
But, I'm interested in hearing what you all think, or what you've done to
get around this.  Or, if you have any philosophical thoughts on this.

Thanks,
Rich
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Rich Harrington
Electronic Services Department
James J. Hill Reference Library, St. Paul, MN USA
rharrington at jjhill.org