357738 - "Minimum font size" sometimes doesn't work

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Disability Access APIs, defect)

Description

[oliperas]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060909 Firefox/1.5.0.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060909 Firefox/1.5.0.7

"Minimum font size" doesn't always work for some sites (google). It never works for some others (http://www.game-revolution.com/). 

For a demonstration with google check out the captured video.

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Visit http://www.game-revolution.com
2.For a demonstration with google check out the captured video.
3.




Happens with fresh installation of eng Win XP SP2 & eng Firefox. I 've also tried the nightly/latest-trunk build with a new profile, no change.

Comment 1

[oliperas]

Attachment: google.com demonstration of the problem

Notice how "minimum size font" goes on and off

Comment 2

[oliperas]

The Firefox 2 [Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0] also has this bug. I have tried 16 and 20 as values. There are many sites that don't work with "minimum font size" e.g. www.msn.com, www.alexa.com. 

Comment 3

[Ahmad Syukri]

I can also confirm this with Firefox 3.

Also refer to https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=157667 comment #4. Although a minimum font size is set, using DOM Inspector, the computed style clearly proves that the font is displayed with size smaller than the set minimum.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=287009 might be related.

Also, this is not encoding-related problem. For the purpose of testing, I've even set the minimum font size for every language possible (including user defined) to 16, yet there are still pages rendering at 11px. (Example: http://www.2tiff.com/features/ )

While waiting for the fix, can anyone suggest a workaround for this? Many would suggest NoSquint extension, but depending on what you want to achieve, that might be meaningless.

I've also putting the following in UserChrome.css:

html>body {
  font-size: 100% !important;
  line-height: normal !important;
}

Of course, it wouldn't work for other elements with specific font-size.

Comment 4

[Joe Petree]

I have the same problem. Some sites ignore the "minimum font size" setting.  I am using Firefox 3.0.7.   Interestingly, the Mozilla support web site, "http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/", IGNORES the setting, yet, on the other hand, here at bugzill.mozilla.org, the setting works fine.

Comment 5

[David Bolter [:davidb] (NeedInfo me for attention)]

Mass un-assigning bugs assigned to Aaron.

Comment 6

[David Bolter [:davidb] (NeedInfo me for attention)]

Just tested. Closing as WORKSFORME. Please reopen with specific steps to reproduce and a test case if this shows up again.

Thanks for filing the bug.