754122 - sfgate.com has oddly inflated text in some parts of the page

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[John Slater]

I know this isn't a hugely important site in the grand scheme, but figured this is perhaps indicative of other issues.

The sfgate.com site doesn't display properly in Aurora. For one thing, it displays the standard web site instead of defaulting to the mobile version like iOS Safari does. Beyond that, the formatting isn't really correct...some text is very small, other text is too big. It doesn't quite match the look of the desktop site.

Comment 1

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

(In reply to John Slater from comment #0)
> For one thing, it displays the standard web site instead of defaulting to the mobile version
They have a big red link at the top to get to their mobile version.

>Beyond that, the formatting isn't really correct...some text is very small, other text is too big. It doesn't quite match the look of the desktop site.

This is font-inflation, and yes the font-inflation heuristics need fine tuning. I'll add this to the bucket of font-inflation bugs for triage to see if anything is different about this site.

Comment 2

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

(In reply to John Slater from comment #0)
> Beyond that, the formatting isn't really
> correct...some text is very small, other text is too big. It doesn't quite
> match the look of the desktop site.

This seems like intended behavior to me:  the goal is that when you zoom in to any particular piece, the text will be readable when you've zoomed it to the width of the viewport.

Comment 3

[Michael Comella (:mcomella) [NI reported issues only: ex-Mozilla]]

Attachment: Screenshot of desktop site (including footer)

Though this is unrelated to the issues discussed, it falls under the bug title. Please comment if you think another bug should be opened.

The footer on the desktop site does not appear at all in mobile Firefox. This may be because the footer appears to be multiple iframes embedded in one another.

Attached desktop screenshot so you can see the footer.

Comment 4

[Scott Johnson (:jwir3)]

(In reply to Michael Comella (:mcomella) from comment #3)
> Created attachment 654378 [details]
> Screenshot of desktop site (including footer)
> 
> Though this is unrelated to the issues discussed, it falls under the bug
> title. Please comment if you think another bug should be opened.
> 
> The footer on the desktop site does not appear at all in mobile Firefox.
> This may be because the footer appears to be multiple iframes embedded in
> one another.
> 
> Attached desktop screenshot so you can see the footer.

Hi Michael:

Yes, this should be filed under a different bug. Something to the extent of "Fennec native does not display footer on sfgate.com"

This bug primarily tracks font-inflation issues with sfgate.com, not overarching rendering issues. I've changed the title to reflect this.

Comment 5

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

[Triage] closing as worksforme, both since:
 * sfgate now gives us the mobile site which doesn't have this problem
 * it was basically the intended behavior of the feature:  it's a tradeoff between making the text readable and honoring the original design of the site