[Doc-SIG] Re: HTML Puzzle

[Dethe Elza]

I would check to see if the stylesheets are being served with the proper
MIME types.  Navigator tends to be sensitive to that sort of thing,
while IE tends to ignore MIME types in favor of extension-mapping.

--Dethe

> I've been fiddling with the stylesheet for Docutils output, and I came
> across something strange in Netscape 4.7 (MacOS).  I've reduced it to one
> variable: web server.  I've copied the HTML and stylesheet for PEP 257 from
> python.org to docutils.sf.net, so I'm looking at the exact same data, but
> they render differently.  Here are the two URLs:
> 
>     http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0257.html
>     http://docutils.sf.net/spec/pep0257.html
> 
> (Note there's no "-"; that's so it doesn't clobber the locally-generated
> file that does have a "-".  Otherwise insignificant.)
> 
> Specifically, the typeface and spacing of the RFC2822 headers and section
> headers render differently.  The python.org one comes out correctly, with
> headers in a sans-serif font, but the sf.net one uses a serif font.  In the
> sf.net version, there's more space between the lines in the header.
> 
> Can anyone reproduce or explain this?