266231 - very large font when viewing message body

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[David Bernier]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041025

After successful login to Yahoo Mail, after clicking on the subject
of any message, the full message is shown in a very large font.
This has happened every time with recent nightly builds up to 10/25/2004 .
This bug *does not* occur in 1.7.3, i.e.:  
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. login to yahoo mail
2. click on Inbox
3. click on the subject of any message

Actual Results:  
The message was displayed in a huge font.

Expected Results:  
It should have displayed the message in size 12 font, approximately.

Comment 1

[Felix Miata]

Reporter, what do you mean by "size 12"? Your Mozilla pref is set in px, which
is 16 unless  you have changed it. 16px translates to 12pt, but only if your
system DPI is still the Windows default 96. pt sizes vary with DPI, and many
people use other DPI settings, making pt a poor choice for sizing text on web
pages. At higher DPI settings, 12pt can be very large and inappropriate.

Go to Yahoo "mail options" -> "general preferences" and check your "font size".
Setting it to "smaller" will likely solve your problem.

The css for that page is a massive 34K
http://us.js1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/lib/pim/r/medici/6_16_2/mail/us/mail_blue_all.css
in which there seems to be conflicting rules for the main message body: 

body{font:small/1.2em arial,helvetica,clean,sans-serif;font:x-small;}
html>body{font:83% arial,helvetica,clean,sans-serif;}
div#message tt{font-size:1.2em;font:x-small;}

I suspect this needs to be moved to TE. I haven't looked in any browser except
current trunk (Linux & OS/2).

Comment 2

[David Bernier]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Reporter, what do you mean by "size 12"? Your Mozilla pref is set in px, 
[...]

That I expected the e-mail body to be displayed on the screen 
with characters about the same size (in cm or inches) as
Notepad font size 12.  Having opened Notepad and typed some text,
what I wanted was Notepad size 10.  In what was rendered
with the build of Oct. 25, it looked more like Notepad size 15.

Hence, I've reverted to stable 1.7.3 but will login
to Bugzilla occasionally.

Comment 3

[David Bernier]

(In reply to comment #1)
[...]

> Go to Yahoo "mail options" -> "general preferences" and check your "font size".
> Setting it to "smaller" will likely solve your problem.
[...]

Ok.  I did that (change setting to smaller) and now
message bodies are the size I want them to be.
My problem is solved with that setting change.

Now I'm using:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8a5) Gecko/20041027

Comment 4

[David Bernier]

(In reply to comment #3)
[...]

I tried changing "mail options" -> "general preferences" ->  Font Size

from Normal to Larger to Smaller and back again in Yahoo! Mail.

The line below, from an email from Bugzilla,
is always 20.9 cm in width from first '-' to last '-' : 


------- Additional Comments From [e-mail]  2004-10-27 21:22 PDT -------


This is fine by me.  Also, checking/unchecking
checkbox:  Preferences -> Fonts -> Allow documents to use other fonts

has no effect:  always 20.9 cm  (ok by me).

An idea:  perhaps have: "Allow documents to use other fonts" 
          checked  (Enabled)  by default??

Currently using:  

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8a5) Gecko/20041027

Comment 5

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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