185633 - wininformant.com - Reading any articles results in a small font size, compared to Internet Explorer.

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[Ronald Mendoza]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021207 Phoenix/0.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021207 Phoenix/0.5

If you select any of the articles, the resulting page is rendered in a much
smaller font size than when rendered in Internet Explorer.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Visit http://www.wininformant.com
2. Select any of the articles and compare the font size to that in Internet
Explorer.
3.

Actual Results:  
The articles are displayed with a much smaller font size in Phoenix, compared to
Internet Explorer.

Expected Results:  
The font size should be "normal" in Phoenix, and not as small.

Comment 1

[Sébastien Delahaye]

Well, according to http://www.winnetmag.com/Magazine/windows.css, they use the
following css rule
---

p
{font-size: x-small}

---

So, Phoenix/Mozilla renders it right. Actually, MSIE6 renders it like if it was
using font-size: small. It'd probably be better if wininformant.com used
font-size: small instead of font-size: x-small for their p elements.

Their feedback form: http://www.winnetmag.com/AboutUs/Index.cfm?Action=Feedback

Confirming, moving to tech evangelism and reassigning.

Comment 2

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

Ronald, as the original reporter, can you contact the site and explain to them
the error of their ways and ask them to not use such a small font size?

Comment 3

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

tech evang june 2003 reorg

Comment 4

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

looks ok