Closed Bug 1334030 Opened 7 years ago Closed 6 years ago

www.pakistanpapers.com (and other pages) - fonts are sized differently in chrome and firefox

Categories

(Core :: Layout: Images, Video, and HTML Frames, defect)

53 Branch
defect
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normal

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RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1127441

People

(Reporter: karlcow, Unassigned)

References

Details

(Whiteboard: [webcompat])

This is a spinoff of a webcompat issues 
https://webcompat.com/issues/4310

The framesets content are resized differently in Chrome and Firefox. 
Chrome seems to apply a zoom for some part of the content.

The code is:


<frameset rows="90,*" frameborder="NO" framespacing="0" border="0">
   <frameset cols="18%,*">
      <frame src="pak/logo.html" name="logo" frameborder="NO" scrolling="NO">
      <frame src="pak/ad.html" name="top" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="NO" noresize="NORESIZE" frameborder="NO" align="TOP" border="0">
   </frameset>

   <frameset cols="18%,*">
      <frame src="pak/left.html" name="left" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" frameborder="NO" border="0" scrolling="NO">
      <frame src="pak/headlines.html" name="main" frameborder="NO">
   </frameset>

<noframes>
<BODY>

<P>This page uses frames, but your browser doesn't support them.
Please get a decent browser from <a
href="http://www.microsoft.com/ie">Microsoft</a> or <a
href="http://www.netscape.com">Netscape</a>
</P></BODY></noframes>
</frameset>
Whiteboard: [webcompat]
I don't see any fundamental difference in how the <frame>s are handled in
those screenshots.  It just seems the text is larger in one of them.
Is that difference still present if you load just that frame?
http://www.pakistanpapers.com/pak/headlines.html
Flags: needinfo?(kdubost)
ok on a closer look. the same thing is happening with the individual pages. So probably not related to frames, but to usual differences we handled viewport and text size compared to Chrome. Chrome does some magic with font-size.  (to be fixed but working on that https://github.com/whatwg/compat/issues/62 )

For example this specific page is has a font-size: 16px 
the "li" elements in Firefox have 16px too, but in Chrome they become 45.8793px.

So Chrome has artificially inflated the fonts. 
I think there is already an issue for this in Bugzilla. 

Need to find this and close as a duplicate.
Flags: needinfo?(kdubost)
What do you think about this one? (in the context of Bug 1123938 ) Thanks.
Flags: needinfo?(botond)
It doesn't seem to be bug 1423013, nor any of the other dependent bugs I've filed so far for bug 1123938.

It seems to be some sort of font inflation heuristic that Chrome is using and we are not.

In fact, I see the same effect when looking at any bugzilla page, including this one. In Fennec, the text in the comments is small and you have to zoom in to read in, while in Chrome the text is large enough to be readable right off the bat.
Flags: needinfo?(botond)
If, in Fennec, you go to Settings -> Accessibility and enable "Use system font size", we do the font inflation as well, with results comparable to Chrome.

It looks like that setting was changed to be off by default in bug 1127441.

So, I think this is a WONTFIX, unless you'd like to argue that for webcompat reasons the setting should be on by default (in which case, please move the bug to the Firefox for Android component).
Blocks: 1127441
Summary: www.pakistanpapers.com - framesets are sized differently in chrome and firefox → www.pakistanpapers.com (and other pages) - fonts are sized differently in chrome and firefox
Ah font inflation I had forgotten about this. Thanks a lot. Let's close this.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 6 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Product: Core → Core Graveyard
Component: Layout: HTML Frames → Layout: Images
Product: Core Graveyard → Core
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