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From: iltzu@sci.fi (Ilmari Karonen)
Subject: Re: Stupid fonts!!!
Date: 1998/03/14
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Brock Kevin Nambo (newsmaster@earthling.net) wrote:
: Ilmari Karonen wrote in message <6ebvhc$cag$1@tron.sci.fi>...
: >|<p>Paste the above two lines into your editor. If they look equally long
: >|like above, good! If the second line looks longer, your font is
: >|proportional.</p>

: <p>If the first line looks longer, your font is wacky.</p>

LOL!

: Stylesheets are wonderful, yes, but have you *SEEN* how Netscape mangles
: them?  My solution (which is icky and will soon be changed) is to use

Urgh! I knew it did, but not that it was that bad..

: JavaScript to make Netscape load a 'corrective' stylesheet and other
: browsers load the 'normal' one. (In other words, non-JavaScript browsers
: don't get it.  But my site counter says I've only had one nonJavaScript, and
: I think that was me.)

My solution has generally been to use style sheets to enhance the
appearance, but to make sure things work even without them. There are
a lot of people using older bowser that don't understand them, after
all. It almost seems as if people had just now stopped upgrading their
browsers every time a new beta came out.. :)

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