Strange formatting on Netscape search results

[VanderHart, Robert]

This message is cross-posted; please excuse any duplication.

For our library online journals page at
http://library.umassmed.edu/ejournals.cfm, which is dynamically generated
using ColdFusion 4.5 for Linux, our web programmer has added a script to the
action pages that will automatically detect when someone from off-campus
performs a search on this page.  The purpose of this script is to
dynamically add the proxy URL prefix to the journal title URLs (we are
implementing EZProxy) so that off-site users are directed through our proxy
server for authentication.  This saves us from having to manually update
hundreds of journal URLs in our database.

The problem is that now, using Netscape 4.61, when I perform a search on the
journals page, the formatting of the output is messed up--journal titles
appear as non-underlined links (which I abhor), and when you get a few
records down in the list the font face reverts back to the browser default
(Times New Roman?).  I realize that Netscape really doesn't render style
sheets correctly, but before this extra script was added to the action pages
the output rendered pretty much the way I wanted it.  The output in IE 5 is
unaffected.

So I'm wondering if I have a style sheet problem (I'm assuming our
programmer didn't inadvertently modify our style sheet), or a CF scripting
problem/incompatability.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.  I would be
happy to send whatever script(s) anyone would like to examine to give me a
clue what has happened here.


Robert J. Vander Hart
Reference Librarian/Government Documents Specialist
The Lamar Soutter Library
University of Massachusetts Medical School
55 Lake Avenue North
Worcester, Massachusetts 01655

(508) 856-3290
Robert.VanderHart at umassmed.edu
http://library.umassmed.edu