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From: "Kathleen Woodside Freiburg" <>
Subject: Re: [BD-ADM] It's a Question of RW vs Ancestry Boards?!
Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 23:25:03 -0700
References: <008c01c11c45$fd3dee20$3d770918@phnx3.easy.home.com> <3B6B85C3.898AA5DE@fgn.net>


Hi, Folks . . .
I just got in from work and read all the comments . . . truthfully I haven't a clue why we're encountering this. When I stumbled on this difference earlier I thought, "Wow. Maybe the font's the problem and a change to the size Ancestry is using on their boards might help those who are crying for larger text and easier reading." Nothing more. Nothing less.

For anyone trying to riddle out a solution to this, here is my hardware & systems:
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Hardware: Compaq Presario 5600, Pentium II processor, 128Mg RAM, 12 Gig HD
OS: Win '98 SE (2nd Edition) 4.10.2222 A
Browser: MS Internet Explorer 5.50.4522.1800 CO w/128 bit cipher strength;
Updates SP!, Q279328, Q286043, Q286045, Q290108 and Q299618.
Monitor: 15" color, set to *High Color 16-bit*; Screen area 800 x 600 pixels.
Browser
Font: *Lucida Console* for Web Page and Plain Text
Set to use Preset fonts when found.
(My font is *only* applied when fonts are not specified on the webpage.)
Text
Viewing: *Medium* Size
[I have 2 larger and 2 smaller which can be applied manually as needed.]

At these settings I have to manually increase my text viewing size on the RootsWeb board pages 2 sizes to *Largest* to equal the preset default size displayed on the same Ancestry board in the same mode (if you change the *rw&p* in URL to *an&p* you can go back and forth between RW and Ancestry). It makes absolutely no difference whether User Mode or Admin. Either gives the same results.

As a test to see if the Ancestry and/or RootsWeb message boards were using programmed fonts preset on the pages, I changes my browser default fonts to a very bold, script font. No effect on *either* page. I repeated with several other easily recognizable fonts with the same results. Therefore, my browser font is *not* determining the font I'm seeing on either board.

Since I'm not a programmer so I surely can't explain why some of you are seeing what I'm seeing and others with older versions of IE or various versions of Netscape are getting entirely different results. I've copied Vicki on this so she can pass this information along to the programming teams so they'll know what was being used when this variance was encountered.

I suggest we await their analysis and response. Vicki has promised to post it here. Sorry guys. Wasn't trying to open a new can of worms; only thought I'd found a cause.

-- Kathleen
<hanging her head because this is nuts and she doesn't know why>


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