[WEB4LIB] Re: Setting Fonts in Netscape

[Andrew Mutch]

If one is going to name-drop the guru, one should spell his name properly -
that would be:

"Thomas Dowling says...."

Humble apologies!

Andrew Mutch
Lirbrary Systems Technician
Waterford Township Public Library
Waterford, MI

Andrew Mutch wrote:

> Lynne,
>
> The proper way to do this is with cascading stylesheets [CSS].  Going this
> route saves you the problem of adding in those FONT tags and even better,
> when the boss decides that Verdana or Tahoma is the new "font of the day",
> you only have to change one file to change all your pages.  Pretty cool,
> right?  Of course, the catch is that:
>
> 1)  Netscape 4.x doesn't always handle CSS properly.
>
> 2)  Older browsers don't support CSS well, if at all.
>
> But, it's really time for web page designers to move onward and upward
> [myself included].
>
> If the boss says otherwise, tell them that "Thomas Downling says...."
>
> Andrew Mutch
> Lirbrary Systems Technician
> Waterford Township Public Library
> Waterford, MI
>
> "L. E. Puckett" wrote:
>
> > Hello, everyone!
> > Can one of the HTML gurus out there tell me if there is a way to set a
> > base font in Netscape? I know this is not a wonderful idea, but the boss
> > wants everything in Arial, so I'm not left with much choice. I use
> > Wordpad or Front Page for editing, if it matters.
> >
> > The problem is, as far as I can tell, Netscape requires a FONT tag in
> > every cell of a table (all TD tags). With IE, you can set a font face
> > with the BASEFONT tag, or at the beginning of each table (once) and it
> > keeps going until closed.
> >
> > This is the first time I've ever found something IE did better than
> > Netscape, & I'd appreciate not having to go back & put font tags in all
> > over the place just so Netscape will show up properly, if I can avoid
> > it.
> > Web page is at www.billings.lib.mt.us & like all others is under
> > permanent construction.
> > Grateful for any help,
> > Lynne
> > --
> > L.E. Puckett
> > Parmly Billings Library
> > 510 North Broadway
> > Billings,  MT  59101