Re: Netscape Trouble

In a message dated 3/21/01 3:26:46 PM GMT Standard Time, 
caroling(at)earthlink.net writes:

> On a Macintosh, system 9.04 I compared the page in NN 4.72 and IE 5.
>  They differed in font type faces and horizontal margins.
>  
>  In NN all the type was in serif

I keep on forgetting that NN doesn't inherit the CSS style from the previous 
elements.  With IE the whole lot inherits the font from the <.body> tag, 
which NN doesn't seem to do.

I actually forgot to say what the problem was in NN in the first email :-)  
My problem is with the black lines around the main content section are not in 
the right places in NN.  However you obviously didn't see this problem.
>  
>  In IE all the type was sans-serif. Looks like IE gives you some extra
>  margin space not provided by Netscape. Or they are different. I didn't
>  look at your stylesheet.

I've used style sheet for padding - most browsers visiting the current site 
are IE 5.XX so I thought that it wouldn't really matter using CSS for this 
padding - it only makes the site look better.
>  
>  You are not using web-safe colours. I tried the display at 256 colours and
>  the colour didn't look too different. 

I will probably be changing to a web-safe palette.  However, the question I 
have been asking myself recently is if this is still needed.  Most computer 
displays are 16-bit colour, none of my sites are visited by WebTV so is there 
any need to use 216 colours?

Thanks,
Peter.

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