291012 - font size did increase in windows builds on high screen resolution

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, defect)

Description

[Bernd]

the default font size changed recently and become bigger than the default on my
system. I do see the problem with 2005-04-19 but it was OK with 2005-04-08

Comment 1

[Bernd]

Attachment: normal font size

Comment 2

[Bernd]

Attachment: increased font size

Comment 3

[Bernd]

bug 289217?

Comment 4

[Bernd]

this changed between 04-17-06 and 04-18-05
http://bonsai.mozilla.org/cvsquery.cgi?treeid=default&module=all&branch=HEAD&branchtype=match&dir=&file=&filetype=match&who=&whotype=match&sortby=Date&hours=2&date=explicit&mindate=2005-04-17+06%3A00%3A00&maxdate=2005-04-18+05%3A00%3A00&cvsroot=%2Fcvsroot

Comment 5

[Bernd]

Neil was that the intention of bug 289217?

Comment 6

[[e-mail]]

OK, so I will need some information to determine what the issue is here.
Firstly, in Display properties Appearance, which font and size do you use? I use
8pt Microsoft Sans Serif. Secondly, in Settings Advanced, what DPI setting do
you use? I use 96dpi. Thirdly, in both versions, if you open DOM Inspector and
use it to inspect itself what is given as the computed font size of the window
element? Before the patch I get 10.6667px; after it I get the true 11px height.
Fourthly, if you write some HTML that specifies some text in your font at each
height, does that HTML display the same difference that you are experiencing? I
see no difference between a 10.6667px font and an 11px font.

Comment 7

[Bernd]

Attachment: font settings

the font went from Tahoma 13.33333 to 14

Comment 8

[Bernd]

it looks like your patch dropped the rounding to nearest:
(ptrLogFont->lfHeight < 0 ? -0.5 : 0.5)); // round up

Comment 9

[[e-mail]]

Comment on attachment 181240 [details]
font settings

No, I need to know your *Windows* font settings...

Comment 10

[[e-mail]]

Although based on that screenshot I'd say that your caption and text font sizes
are the same, so in fact Mozilla was using the wrong font size previously.

Comment 11

[[e-mail]]

(In reply to comment #9)
>No, I need to know your *Windows* font settings...
In particular, your message box font.

Comment 12

[Bernd]

Its not the MessageBox font but the menu font. Mozilla now honours the windows
settings as other apps do. I liked the smaller fonts more, they fitted perfect.
So simply thats live, things regress slowly. I guess there are opposite dupes in
bugzilla claiming that mozilla uses a too small font for its menus which are now
fixed.

Comment 13

[[e-mail]]

Actually the font depends on the theme, but for Modern the following apply:
button, menu, menuitem, tab { font: menu; }
window, page, dialog, wizard, menulist, tooltip, toolbarbutton, menulist,
.menulist-menupopup > menuitem, menulist > menupopup > menuitem,
.menulist-menupopup > menu, menulist > menupopup > menu,
.autocomplete-history-popup > menuitem, .tab-bottom > .tab-text,
#go-button, #search-button { font: message-box; }
You could always override the font size in userChrome.css of course.