[WEB4LIB] Setting Fonts in Netscape

[L. E. Puckett]

Hi, Suzanne!
Part of the problem is, I DON"T WANT 700 Font tags in my HTML. It's
messy, and makes troubleshooting problems a lot harder due to all the
extra clutter. Front Page will put the tags in all right, including
cells that have NO text content whatever! Brain-dead...
Another problem is low end browsers - they don't recognize style sheets
any better than Netscape 1-5.xx. I have a beautiful style sheet for our
basic background, no tiling, looks wonderful - can't use it because most
of our patrons do NOT have IE4/5, or Netscape 6 (which I understand is
still a bit wobbly anyway). They wouldn't see any background at all. I'm
still trying to figure out how to reconcile accessibility issues, lowest
common denominator browsers, HTML versions, etc ad nauseam. 
DeeAnn & I have been discussing having 2 separate pages - 1 low tech, 1
high tech, so we could have a page to play with (the high tech) & one
for our patrons that they can see. Double the work, double the fun,
right? :) Figure the odds...

Many thanks for your input, though, I do appreciate it, and all the
others' as well. Keep those cards & letters coming! I still don't have a
solution!

Lynne

Suzanne Reymer wrote:
> 
> Lynne-
> 
> If you highlight all of the text you want in Arial in FrontPage and then
> select Arial as your font you can let FP put in all the font tags.  It's
> still a bit of a pain but not nearly so labor intensive as putting in all
> the tags by hand.  And, I find that IE is infinitely preferable from a web
> designer point of view.  As someone else pointed out, IE has had CSS
> capability for some time.  I've designed some wonderful pages using CSS that
> I had to scrap since Netscape couldn't deal with it.  Netscape 6.0 (finally)
> handles CSS alright but it's not quite ready for primetime.
> 
> Suzanne

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L.E. Puckett
Parmly Billings Library
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Billings,  MT  59101