Appearance Discrepancies

Problem: Your sketch saves correctly and previews in your browser, but certain details in the JavaSketchpad illustration—such as choice of fonts, size of exact position of text—do not match your original sketch.

Cause: These minor discrepancies are inevitable in Java applets, where less sophisticated graphic and text services are available to an applet than to a nonapplet program (like your browser or desktop Sketchpad). What you sacrifice in appearance flexibility you gain in generality: Applets like JavaSketchpad work well on a much wider variety of computers than are capable of running the full desktop version of Sketchpad.

See also
Web Publishing Overview