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Date:      Mon, 09 Jul 2001 17:06:04 -0400
From:      Jason Andresen <jandrese@mitre.org>
To:        Greg Lehey <grog@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>, Bill Moran <wmoran@iowna.com>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Broken browsers (was: JFS)
Message-ID:  <3B4A1CBC.21F4A757@mitre.org>
References:  <200107071638.SAA19610@lurza.secnetix.de> <000d01c1074e$49d31ba0$0300a8c0@uhring.com> <xzp66d3s2a5.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <01070814053800.10938@dave> <xzpofqvqkbk.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <3B48BCBA.EB917AD5@iowna.com> <xzpk81jqhba.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <20010710060759.S80862@wantadilla.lemis.com>

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Greg Lehey wrote:
> 
> On Sunday,  8 July 2001 at 22:47:21 +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> > Bill Moran <wmoran@iowna.com> writes:
> >> On the flip side, the Sistina page displays well even though I
> >> don't have that font, so _I_ wasn't put off by it. Other aspects
> >> of the page design made me decide not to read further into it,
> >> however. (primarily the diffucult-to-read blue on black text on
> >> the nav column)
> >
> > If you're seeing blue text on black background, your browser is broken
> > or misconfigured.  The nav bar has white text on black background.
> 
> This may be the case.  I know Netscrape is broken, but I get this junk
> all the time.  How do I fix it?

Might be style sheets.  Unfortunatly under NS4 you have to turn on
javascript (security alert!) to get style sheets working properly.

If Javascript and stylesheets are already enabled, then the page
might just be coded poorly (there are plenty of them out there).  
Chances are the developer only tested on IE and doesn't consider
Netscape important enough to care about, or they wrote the whole
thing in Frontpage or Word or some other horrible WYSIWYG HTML
editor and would be taken aback by the concept of actually _testing_
a webpage before releasing it in the wild.  

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