On Thu, Jul 29, 1999 at 11:58:05AM -0400, Dan Delaney wrote:
From: Christopher Petrilli
Well, colors work fine across all browsers that I've been able to test with. More advanced features aren't consistent, but some things that I've not had any real problems with:
- Colors
Well, everything works great in these new CSS mockups except for one thing. NETSCRAPE DOESN'T SET THE COLORS FOR THE BODY TAG! Yes. I'm using Netscrape 4.5 and when I specify a style sheet like "BODY { background-color: #000000; color: #FFFFFF }", Netscrape doesn't set the page background to black and text to white. I don't know whether or not MSIE does because my copy of MSIE5 bombs as soon as it is launched (it's running on WinNT, what do you expect! :-), so could someone please check it out (CSS mockup 3 is the one that should have a black background for the page) with MSIE (versions 3, 4, and 5) and let me know what it does?
Well, I forgot about this, IE behaves properly in this case... but that's definately a bummer... I just set the body tag manually.
Anyway, go check out the new CSS mockups at www.Dionysia.org/temp/mailman/ and let me know what you think.
Looks good, and loads faster for me.
- Font size, especially relative (never use absolute)
I always specify type size in ems, which is the ideal relative type size measurment unit.
Um, this breaks on *NIX because tehy have rather antiquated ideas about fonts. I get this constantly from Linux people "whine whine, your fonts are too small"... I have to set them to like 18pt before they quit whining, so I just quitsetting ANYTHING in absolute. Um, setting font size in "ems" is a riot, BTW, since the definition of an em depends on the font you're in, no? :-) Try using percentages. Spacing is defined in ems, not fonts.
Chris
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