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Re: Mozilla (was: Re: Why MSIE sucks for the HTML writer)
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lugnet.off-topic.geek
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Thu, 23 Mar 2000 03:19:31 GMT
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Todd Lehman wrote:
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> In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Dan Boger writes:
> > I never used IE, and I will probably never will - unless they come out
> > with IE for linux and then I'll give it a shot. I used to use NN and my
> > MOC browser :P but now I've switched to mozilla, and I'm _very_ happy
> > with it :)
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> I can't get TrueType fonts to display correctly in Mozilla (a build from two
> nights ago). Do they work for you? I'm specifying 'times new roman' and
> 'courier new' and 'arial' for the three fonts (serif, monospace, and sans-
> serif, respectively). But it's displaying some other font instead. Netscape
> Navigator 4.6-4.7, OTOH, handles the TrueType lookups just fine, but always
> displays them in 12 pt. :-(
as far as I can tell, mozilla has no problems showing any kind of fonts
- though I never bothered to install to many. What X server are you
using? As a rule, font problems are related to xfs, and not to the
application...
> > > Maybe there is some magic formula I'm supposed to be able to come up
> > > with to do things like make the text readable and normal on all pages
> > > but part of me just balks at having to fiddle with something as silly
> > > as that.
> >
> > errr... I'm not sure what you're talking about here - I never had a
> > problem with NN and text being readable?
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> Hmm, I haven't had anything _but_ problems getting NN to display readable
> text under Linux. NN looks awesome on Win32, and sorta OK on MacOS (the
> Mac has crummy fonts by default), but NN still "ain't there" in the font
> department under Linux...unless...do you know some magic tricks???
nope, no tricks - but never had any kind of problems... :/
Dan
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