Angel wrote:
> >ah, Netscape!  Okay, I adjusted things a bit so it should less scrunched
> >now?
>
> No, it looks the same.

hmm, okay, I adjusted it a bunch, here's a screenshot of how it looks on a PC
in N4, does it look spaced out like this for you?

http://mediafan.ma-at.net/netscape4.jpg

and if not, perhaps try Shift-Reload to make sure you're getting a fresh page?
or if you can, can you do a screenshot and send it to me?  [EMAIL PROTECTED]

> It's on the right. Any NN except for 6 and higher will ignore the @import
> code. Or so my CSS teacher taught me.

yes, that's my understanding too, but I wanted to be sure, things are not
always the same on a Mac, IE 5 on a Mac does some really different things from
IE 5 on a PC... :-)

> With hex (#ccffcc) IE, NN, Opera, they all have a slightly different idea of
> how that color should look. With rgb, you tell the browser what the color
> should look like.

See, I don't have this problem, on this computer using 32 bit true color or on
my older one using 16 bit high color for testing sites, the colors all look
the same in IE, NN and Opera.  Text sizes vary slightly, especially in N4 but
colors are all the same (there's a difference in the colors between the two
computers but on each computer in different browsers, the colors are the
same).  Maybe it's different for Macs...

> This is a very specific green. It showed up the same in all the browsers I
> tested in and as far as I know there's no hex equivilant because I came up

#ADFFDE.  PSP gave me that hex code for that color (and PS should be able to
give you hex codes as well).  I set up two test html pages, specify that hex
color in one and the decimal code in the other, they look exactly the same to
me:

http://mediafan.ma-at.net/testrgb.html
http://mediafan.ma-at.net/testhex.html

If the color on the two pages looks different to you, then it sounds like a
difference in how Macs perceive color vs how PCs perceive color, rather than
how browsers perceive color.  And if that's the case, I'm not surprised, Sue's
shown me screenshots of her Mac at different gamma settings, the Mac default
and a Windows gamma setting, there's clearly a difference there that's OS
related rather than browser related.  And Macs have always been better with
color, that was one of their early selling points, although PCs are catching
up these days.

> font-family: "Comics Sans MS", Arial, Helvatica, sans-serif;

(pssst, gotta couple typos there, it's Comic, no "s" on the end, and
Helvetica, two e's)

> You probably didn't notice a difference because you kept the same color for
> the text, right? You didn't darken or lighten the green?

Yes I kept the same color, because I want the same color, I just want everyone
else to see it as green instead of blue! <grin>

> See? That's why rgb is so much better. Rather then telling the browser a hex
> code and hoping that it's idea of the color is the same as yours, you're
> giving a *specific* color code. The browser displays the color you want.

Reading that article I posted the link to about the web-safe color palette
doesn't suggest that decimal has any greater value over hexadecimal.  They ran
the test on various browsers on both PCs and Macs, still found the same color
shift.  It has to do with colors in images shifting when the image is saved
and they were working with the basic 256 color palette, the so called websafe
color palette that people thought rendered the same on all computers in all
browsers.

> True, but at least it looks green to me now and not blue. ;)

I'm confused after all this :-) what looks green?  the index2.html page with
the decimal specification?  or the original page, index.html?

http://mediafan.ma-at.net/index.html
http://mediafan.ma-at.net/index2.html

Does one look blue and the other green?  if so, which is which?  or are they
both green?

thanks much for all the info!

alice ttlg

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