280021 - Unreadable fonts in Yahoo chess board

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Bahram Alinezhad]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i586; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i586; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913

The java plugin still has very small and unreadable fonts in some applets; E.g.
examine the Yahoo chess board.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Play chess in Yahoo :)



Expected Results:  
Compare with IE (in Windows).


My jre version is 1.5.0.

Comment 1

[Gérard Talbot]

I examine the Yahoo chess board with MSIE 6 SV1 and Mozilla 1.8b build
2005021205 and saw no differences (re font size). The Yahoo chess board is a
window java applet. My JRE version is 1.5.0_01 under XP Pro SP2.

Some part of the interface may be small and almost unreadable (e.g.: like in the
java applet Game room window interface: "options: x minutes initial time. y
second increment. rated|unrated.") but this is due to the java programmer (and
his programming decisions) and there is no interface setting you can use in
Mozilla or Firefox or MSIE 6 to increase the size of font; no java applet UI
setting was defined like in this one:
http://ww2.cs.fsu.edu/~steele/XHTML/appletObject.html
where the applet has been programmed to allow the user to set size of text. 

Reducing scr. res. will increase the display of characters though.

Resolving as INVALID

Comment 2

[Bahram Alinezhad]

It seems we should complain Yahoo! But, if they have not considered browsers
other than IE yet, I prefer not to waste my time to communicate such programmers
(designers of the game).

If you examine IE with its *own* java (before installing 1.5.x), you see that
fonts are shown nice. Perhaps, Microsoft has defined a minimum font size for its
java plugin. The problem is that Yahoo has never considered any other browsers
with Sun's java.

Can we contact sun for fixing this (e.g. by adding an option to set a minimum
font size)?

Thank you for your notice,
Bahram Alinezhad,
Rudehen, Tehran, Iran.

Comment 3

[Gérard Talbot]

> It seems we should complain Yahoo! But, if they have not considered browsers
> other than IE yet, 

They have. Many years ago. For Netscape 4. And more recently with NS 6+.

I prefer not to waste my time to communicate such programmers
> (designers of the game).

Yahoo! portal services are serving a lot of people... Yesterday, over 200,000.
You can not expect each request to be handled, to be replied personally, to be
accepted, etc..

> If you examine IE with its *own* java (before installing 1.5.x),

No I did not.

 you see that
> fonts are shown nice. 

Then this is part of Yahoo! problem.

Perhaps, Microsoft has defined a minimum font size for its
> java plugin. 

No. In an applet, it's defined by java programming. The java plugin has
nothing/should have nothing to do with this.

> The problem is that Yahoo has never considered any other browsers
> with Sun's java.

I doubt that. Maybe they did not test exhaustively other browsers.

Comment 4

[Bahram Alinezhad]

> Maybe they did not test exhaustively other browsers.

Surely they didn't.

Thank you for your notice,
Bahram Alinezhad,
Rudehen, Tehran, Iran.