Kelly,

As you have guessed, the problem is with the Cascading Style Sheet.  This is
a file that was generated by Netscape and is controlled by Netscape.  George
has no control over this file or the way it displays text, except (as you
noted) to turn off the style sheets completely.

Turning off the style sheets will resolve his problem with this ONE web
site, but will create many more problems with the several hundred thousand
OTHER web sites that use style sheets with correctly sized fonts.

As I said, the problem is on Netscape's end -- they designed the style sheet
with a font selection that is too small for many systems.  It displays
correctly on your system because you probably have the same size monitor
with the same screen resolution which was used by the person who designed
the style sheet.

If I create a web page or a graphic image on a system with a 15" monitor set
at 800x600 resolution, the resulting file will look much smaller on a 15"
monitor with 1024x768.  Conversely, if displayed on a 15" monitor at
640x480, it would be almost 40% larger than the original.  And the same file
would look absolutely miniscule on a 19 or 21" monitor with 1280x1024
resolution.

This is why many web pages have a large white strip down the right side of
the screen.  The original design was done on a machine with a lower screen
resolution.

Jim Meagher
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----- Original Message -----
From: Kelly Younger <[log in to unmask]>

> George Kaufman wrote:
> >
> > Thanks for your quick reply, Kelly.  I had tried both of your
suggestions
> > earlier without success.  I think what I'm seeking now is a way to
e-mail or
> > otherwise contact Netscape directly and let them know that their very
recent
> > change to a very small font is too tough on many of our eyes.
> >
> > George
> > > Try View|Increase Font. This should work, but then so should "Ctrl ]".
I
> > > know this won't make you feel better , but, Netcenter displays fine
> > > here.
> > > --
> > > Kelly Younger
>
> The problem is *not* on Netscape's end. Netcenter's display is the
> result of the client (your) machine. I would suggest that you close
> Communicator and, using Windows Explorer (or whatever File Manager you
> use) to delete the Cache file in your Netscape "Users" folder. It will
> be rebuilt when restarting Netscape. If this doesn't work, go to
> Edit|Preferences|Advanced and uncheck "Enable style sheets" and see if
> you can change the font using the View|Increase Font command. Please
> post back if this doesn't work.

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