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To: Scott Lux who wrote (2267)	1/26/2001 7:49:05 PM
From: Paul Kern	Respond to of 3372

Scott, I've already set up IE 5 like that and emptied the cache a few times in hopes of getting it running correctly. Update: This morning, I could add stocks and change preferences but not delete stocks. After a while , say 10 minutes, the screamer would die completely. However, I had saved the working Java code in the Apple Applet Runner folder and put an alias on my desk top. Then, if I quit the browser and relaunched the screamer from from the working Java code, it would work for a while and then lock up. After doing this I few times, I quit but still have the best code so far saved to look at over the weekend. So we have progress but we're not quite there yet. Paul PS: I am not a programmer and the last time I wrote anything was 15 years ago so I may look at the Java code but probably won't be able to suggest any fixes and, if I do, please just shoot me in the head. PPS: If the programmers at money.net are interested, I would be happy to e-mail them the best code so far.

To: Scott Lux who wrote (2267)	1/29/2001 12:14:19 PM
From: Carolyn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3372

Scott, I am sure I am not alone in saying that the font situation is terrible - the eyestrain alone is enough to chase everyone away. I know you are working on it, unless the AA has chased you away too. Please hurry! Thanks.

To: Scott Lux who wrote (2267)	1/29/2001 12:45:39 PM
From: Fargonaut	Respond to of 3372

Hi Scott, Has the keyboard navigation feature not been working lately? Or is it my two machines? They handle it ok over at the Fool boards. Frank (IE5.50.4522.1800, W2000 5.00.2195SP1)

To: Scott Lux who wrote (2267)	1/30/2001 11:22:15 AM
From: Daniel	Respond to of 3372

Scott, Another problem with using CSS for font control is that it apparently overrides the browser controls for using larger or smaller font sizes. (That's a stupid browser design, but's that apparently the way it is.) I noticed this on a Netpulse Internet-browser-equipped exercise bike (which appears to be build on MSIE): the button to change the text size did nothing on SI pages. Hey, instead of trying to use CSS to control rendering on the client side, could you look into using more server-side technologies to generate simpler HTML? Like maybe working with XML internally and generating HTML from that XML using XSLT (generating different styles using different XSLT transforms)? Or otherwise having your server-side code (e.g., servlets, or whatever .gsp is) assemble internally-styled HTML from message text, etc.? (I know CSS is the recommended and requested (by the W3C) way to go, but browser support really isn't here yet.) (By the way, what technology does the .gsp suffix indicate?) Daniel

To: Scott Lux who wrote (2267)	1/30/2001 11:29:49 AM
From: Daniel	Respond to of 3372

Scott, I'm not sure I mentioned this in a message directly to you or not: Please reduce the width of the text area on the message-composition page. It shows up significantly wider than the box around Classic-style messages. That means that someone browsing with a window wide enough to read messages would have to scroll horizontally many times (once for each line written--and re-read) to compose a message). (In fact, you'd have to scroll the main window to the right just to get to the text-area scroll bar to scroll the text area vertically.) Thanks, Daniel