Different browsers, different results; wonder why....

[RogerF]

Both my IE and Netscape 7.1 browser preferences are configured alike. When I copy and paste from one paticular web site I come up with different results.

To wit, in IE copy/paste from the site to an Appleworks 6 doc produces text in the desired font and size ( in this case Verdanna 11). With Netscape the font changes from Verdanna to Charcoal when pasted thus reqiering an extra step to change it back.

Any thoughts?

By the way, we spend 10-15 hours a week crunching data from this site, so extra keystrokes cost time and $.

[Epaminondas]

Roger,

How do you have your Edit > Preferences > Appearance > Fonts set up in Netscape 7.1?

Do you have Verdanna set up throughout your Netscape preferences?

Have you unchecked "Allow documents to use other fonts?"

Just some thoughts.  You're probably already way ahead of me.

Good luck,

Epaminondas
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 [ 02-13-2003, 09:10 PM: Message edited by: Epaminondas ]

[tacit]

When acomputer programmer writes a computer program, that programmer must decide if, and how, the Clipboard is exported to other applications. When something is copied to the Clipboard, it is the responsibility of the programmer to decide in what format it is placed on the Clipboard, and how the information is made available to other programs.

This is done by using a part of the operating system called the Scrap Manager.

The Explorer programmers chose to include font information in text that is exported to the system scrap. the Netscape progammers did not. When you copy text to the Clipboard in Explorer, the original font is preserved. When you copy text to the Clipboard in Navigator, it isn't.

There's no workaround, short of downloading the Mozilla source code and re-writing the routines that export the Clipboard to the system scrap.

[RogerF]

Thank you so much Tacit. Now I can stop beating myself up thinking there was something I should be able to control if I only knew how.

I think it was probably the various font choices under preferences that got me thinking I could make the browser behave.

So now I can file this right alongside all those other things in my life that I have absolutly no control over. That of course would be my biggest file.

-R

 

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