very small menu when using netscape 4.7

Poster: jvfran
Dated: Friday August 16 2002 - 19:57:23 BST

I built the menu using IE to test and every thing looks great (love the menu), but I tried to look at it in Netscape and it one of those "honey, I shrunk the Menu" movies! the menu is very small and there are no words, however it follows the window and highlights as you move mouse over the menu...
Any thoughts on what I'm doing wrong?? Any help would be appreciated/
http://www.maraquin.org

Poster: menufurfer
Dated: Saturday August 17 2002 - 4:39:52 BST

I've noticed both in my own menus and in other milonic menu designers on the board here that there is a constant font problem when designing in Netscape and testing in IE and vice-versa. The IE fonts are always larger. I think your menu shrunk to fit the size of the Navigator font (which I have found out sometimes because of colors does not show). I'm still trying to learn about this font discrepancy myself. For example I can design in Netscape and have no scroll bar only to go to IE, find the font is typically larger and a scroll bar is forced. /mfurf

Poster: jvfran
Dated: Thursday August 22 2002 - 16:45:26 BST

Thanks for the reply, any thoughts on how to lock in the font size so the menu is consistent across any browser?
I am a novice at this but think that java should not care what browser you are using especially across the latest versions....

Poster: menufurfer
Dated: Friday August 23 2002 - 22:15:58 BST

I am hoping that others reading this will give us the benefit of their experimentation with fonts across various browsers, espcially ID and NS. /mfurf

Microscopic menu

Poster: jvfran
Dated: Sunday September 1 2002 - 15:18:49 BST

OK, I found a way around the problem, but it's not the right way,,
I added an <img source> statement and created a single pixel gif file and added <img source> statement to menu statements, it works but now I have a period before each memu item, at least people can use the menu on Netscape for now until I find the right way to fix this,,, ... /jvfran

Poster: menufurfer
Dated: Sunday September 1 2002 - 21:21:55 BST

Neat, as a stopgapper. I don't understand it however. Isn't this like having one of the arrow graphics or any other graphic except it's a single pixel graphic? How does that wind up stabilizing the font across browsers?