143189 - excite web page renders fonts incorrectly

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[S.Toms]

Similar to bug 140233, the Excite webpage (the main page) renders incorrect font
sizes. Requires an increase to 120% to view page correctly. if left at 100%,
clicking on any other Excite link will render the newpage correctly, returning
to the main page still shows the font sizes too small. This does not appear to
be a problem in the Windows version of Mozilla.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

worksforme.... Linux trunk build 2002-05-07-21, min font size _not_ set.

Could you attach a screenshot of the problem?

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Attachment: Snapshot 1

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Attachment: Snapshot 2

Comment 4

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Attachment: Snapshot 3

Comments from reporter:

  Screenshot1 shows the font size at 100%
  Screenshot2 shows the font size at 100%
  Screenshot3 shows the font size increased to 120%

  If you take a look at Screenshot1, the first headline under news shows a
brief oneliner of the story.

	Deal Reached on Church Standoff

	BETHLEHEM, West Bank (AP) - The 5-week standoff at the Church of
	the Nativity neared an end Thursday with a complex deal to scatter
	13 Palestinian...

Screenshot2 is that linked story but you'll notice the same line at the
top of the story appears larger than that of Screenshot1. Screenshot3 is
the main page with fontsize raised to 120% at that point it shows the font
size to be the same as that of Screenshot2.

I get the same results in font sizes whether I have the option
	"Allow documents to use other fonts"
selected or unselected under Preferences>Appearance>Fonts

These same pages appear to have the same font sizes, at 100%, when
viewed using the Mozilla version for Windows.

Comment 5

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

The front page uses "font-size: 10pt" in CSS for the text in question.

The article page uses <font size="2"> for the text in question.

There is absolutely no reason those should be the same; in fact just changing
your DPI under Linux in the fonts panel should change the relative sizes (since
"pt" is a physical unit whose conversion into "px" depends on DPI while <font
size="2"> just goes one step smaller than your default font's pixel size,
whatever that happens to be).  As far as that goes, _is_ your default  font the
same on Windows and Linux?

Comment 6

[Kai Lahmann (is there, where MNG is)]

no answer