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Hello Roy - 

CA>> Went there using Opera v3.62 under W31 and the page
CA>> wouldn't finish loading. 

RJT> That was the other thing it did for me. 

CA>> Using Netscape v4.08 the text is as described with lighter
CA>> blue on a blue background. Using IEx v6 or Mozilla v1.3 I
CA>> see either white text on a purple background or blue text
CA>> on a white background. 

RJT> One particular browser on the w98 box, I can't recall now
RJT> if it was IE or Netscape, had an option in there to allow
RJT> you to use your own colors, rather than taking what the
RJT> web page was trying to dish out. I can see where something
RJT> like that would be useful here. 

Probably Netscape but the thing is it would affect all other
websites and guessing what colors to 'change' would vary from
website to website. In a pinch when it's absolutely necessary
to be able to read the webpage I guess it could be 'handy'? 

CA>> Looking at the source code for the page it has more
CA>> javascripting than HTML code. The most javascript I think
CA>> I've ever seen on one page. The problem with the
CA>> never-ending loading for Opera is the javascripting. 

RJT> That's probably got something to do with me having
RJT> problems with it, then. I tried one page that my ISP had
RJT> up, where I was supposed to be able to view account
RJT> information. I got an empty frame instead. I called tech
RJT> support, and ended up firing up the w98 box to see it
RJT> there, and could. Was told that the page involved some
RJT> javascript stuff, so I apparently have an issue with that
RJT> under linux that needs to be resolved. 

There are multiple versions of javascripting. Early Netscape
won't do all the newer javascripting. This is one of the
reasons I generally don't use any javascript for my webpages. 

CA>> The problem of blue on blue coloring is the extensive use
CA>> of CSS  (Cascading Style Sheets) which isn't very
CA>> standardized across browser platforms with only something
CA>> like 4 or 5 CSS keywords being recognized by all browsers. 

RJT> I've seen people complain about them before. 

Odd thing (to me) is that so many insist on using it anyhow. 

CA>> I don't care much for the CSS coding, never did. I don't
CA>> even agree with the 'concept' of using CSS but young
CA>> webdesigners seem to think it's the best of the best and
CA>> won't drop it no matter what. 

RJT> This is supposed to be _business_, so I guess they'll
RJT> learn. Even if they have to do it the hard way. 

It's supposed to be a 'shortcut' for making changes but with
different page layouts just blindly changing font sizes or
colors could produce questionable results since everything on
the webpage is unattached and will 'slide' around when pushed
by larger fonts etc. 

It would probably work OK if you had one template and used it
for all of the pages but not many do that from what I have
seen.

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