8.30.2002

Ok, I am fairly certain that Netscape should render the blog template correctly now. Opera is a different story. In javascript, there is a built in variable called navigator.appName. This javascript varaible contains the name of the client browser, the browser you are using to view the webpage. Opera by default identifies itself as Internet Explorer. This is a heinous misstep because Opera and Netscape render text much differently from Internet Explorer and my html must be altered to take this into account. The way to solve this is for Opera users to change their settings so Opera identifies itself as anything other than Internet Explorer. This can be done by pressing F12 with opera open and choosing identify as XXXX on the menu that pops up. (where XXXX is anything but Internet Explorer) Most Opera users should be savvy enough to know how to fix the problem without help from me. If Opera were a more popular browser and had more users this would not be the case. If Netscape were to pull a stunt like that I would just stop supporting multiple browsers altogether.

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