223792 - fonts in form elements larger than surronding text

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core Graveyard :: GFX: Gtk, defect)

Description

[Kelly Price]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030915
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030915

In any page that uses forms that require single lines of text, Mozilla uses a
much larger font than what is normally used in text.  This font should match if
not be slightly smaller than normal.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Pull up any page using forms, including Slashdot.org or MasterZDM.com
Actual Results:  
Form elements use a larger font than normal text.

Expected Results:  
The same font size should be used.


I'm using the Slackware 9.1 build of Mozilla 1.4, built with gtk2.0 and using
Microsoft's fonts grabbed from a copy of Win2K.

Comment 1

[Kelly Price]

Attachment: Testcase HTML

Comment 2

[Kelly Price]

Attachment: Results of the testcase HTML

This is a screenshot of that HTML.

Comment 3

[Kelly Price]

Attachment: Slashdot screenshot

Obligary Slashdot screenshot, comparing normal text with form text.

Comment 4

[Kelly Price]

Attachment: MasterZDM.com (enterthedream.net) screenshot

Screenshot of MasterZDM.com, showing that textbox forms don't exhibit the same
bugs.

Comment 5

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-5, no longer working on Mozilla)]

What build options did you use?  (What are the contents of about:buildconfig .)

This could be a result of enabling GTK2 but not enabling Xft.  In any case, it's
probably a GTK system fonts problem.

Comment 6

[Felix Miata]

Using 1.4.1 20031009, which comes in severn 0.95, I can't see a problem either
in the testcase or on Slashdot or MasterZDM, but I can't see it in your
screenshots either. What does xdpyinfo report for DPI?

Comment 7

[Kelly Price]

about:buildconfig

Build platform
target
i686-pc-linux-gnu

Build tools
Compiler 	Version 	Compiler flags
gcc 	gcc version 3.2.3 	-Wall -W -Wno-unused -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-align
-pedantic -Wno-long-long -O2 -march=i486 -mcpu=i686 -pthread -pipe
c++ 	gcc version 3.2.3 	-fno-rtti -fno-exceptions -Wall -Wconversion
-Wpointer-arith -Wcast-align -Woverloaded-virtual -Wsynth -Wno-ctor-dtor-privacy
-pedantic -Wno-long-long -fshort-wchar -pthread -pipe

Configure arguments
--prefix=/usr --enable-optimize --disable-debug
--with-default-mozilla-five-home=/usr/lib/mozilla-1.4 --enable-strip-libs
--disable-tests --disable-short-wchar --enable-nspr-autoconf
--enable-extensions=default,irc --enable-crypto --disable-xprint
--without-system-nspr --with-system-zlib --enable-default-toolkit=gtk2
--disable-freetype2 --enable-xft 

Comment 8

[Kelly Price]

Built a copy of the 1.5 release just in case, and nada.  about:buildconfig reports:

--prefix=/usr --enable-optimize --disable-debug
--with-default-mozilla-five-home=/usr/lib/mozilla --enable-strip-libs
--disable-tests --disable-short-wchar --enable-nspr-autoconf --enable-crypto
--disable-xprint --without-system-nspr --with-system-zlib
--enable-default-toolkit=gtk2 --disable-freetype2 --enable-xft 

I'm using a dpi of 135, and my .gtkrc-2.0 is:

style "default"
{
        font_name = "Arial 7"
}

class "*" style "default"

Comment 9

[Christopher Blizzard (:blizzard)]

Does changing the dpi affect it (could be bug 197037) or the default UI font? 
How about playing with the fonts settings in mozilla's UI?

Comment 10

[Kelly Price]

I'm not sure what you mean.  Right now, I have the X server repor the DPI as
135, and I've told GTK 2.0 to use Arial 7 as it's font.  Mozilla's taking that
in for the core UI font... but that's not what's being used for the text in the
webpage fonts -- it's definetly using Times New Roman.

Could it be that Mozilla's supposed to use the system-defined UI Font (Arial in
my case) instead of the webpage font (Times New Roman) by default?

Comment 11

[Christopher Blizzard (:blizzard)]

No, it uses whatever the web page and the prefs inside of Mozilla tell it to. 
See the fonts prefs dialog in preferences.  You can change the mappings for the
generic CSS fonts, but sometimes web pages specify fonts other than the default
CSS fonts.

You can probably work around this if you are really dedicated by changing your
userChrome.css file.

Comment 12

[Kelly Price]

Which pref is this in userChrome.css?  Right now, I have this:

* {
    font-family: Arial !important;
    font-size: 7pt !important;
}

input {
    font-family: Arial !important;
    font-size: 8pt !important;
}