Here's an interesting one. I use Opera for most of Web browsing, but it had started to have some real performance problems, being really slow to re-display. After enduring this for awhile and trying all the usual solutions to no avail, I noticed that on a page with which Opera was having problems - simple HTML page - certain headings were displaying with cyrillic letters. I had had this happening for awhile, but hadn't paid attention to it. When I inspected the source code for this page, I found that it was specifying Verdana and I didn't have Verdana installed. For headings set for font size 4 (not 2), the cyrillic letters would be pop up, instead of the alternate font. I installed Verdana and the page displayed correctly and Opera's performance problems have gone away. What does this have to do with TB? Maybe nothing, but I got the following in a reply to my posting the problem to an O news group: "I've seen something with some points of similarity. A program compiled with Delphi 3 caused my system to substitute weird characters in some specific point sizes of the Arial font. Research on the 'net indicated that it wasn't just my system; other users were reporting similar things. When the programs author upgraded to Delphi 4 the problem went away. Since Opera isn't done in Delphi, that's probably not directly related. OTOH, if you're running some other software compiled with Delphi 3 or earlier it could have caused the problem, and it just became visible when Opera tried to use the font." Last I remember from this list, TB is compiled is some early version of Delphi, no? What particularly intrigues me is that the font that was displaying on the Web pages, instead of Verdana, is nowhere on my system that I can see - emphasize the latter - but was cyrillic! Is there possibly some connection here between TB and what was happeninig with Opera? -- Paula Ford The Bat! 1.35 (reg) Windows 95 4.0 Build 950 -- -------------------------------------------------------------- View the TBUDL archive at http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com To send a message to the list moderation team click here: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To Unsubscribe from TBUDL, click below and send the generated message. <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------
