87833 - Unreadable text on gray background

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: CSS Parsing and Computation, defect)

Description

[Matt Seitz]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:0.9.1+) Gecko/20010625
BuildID:    2001062504

This page displays text against a gray background.  On IE, the text appears
black and is readable.  On Mozilla, the text is gray and is very difficult to read.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Go to sample URL


Actual Results:  Text appears gray against a gray background and is difficult to
read.

Expected Results:  Text appears black against a gray background.

Comment 1

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

Worksforme with 062604 mozilla win32 build on win2K and win98, 062608 mozilla
linux build on RedHat 6.2 and 062608 mozilla mac build on OS 8.5 and 9.1 

Text is black on a gray background.

Comment 2

[Jacek Piskozub]

Asa, the problem is in wrong font size, not wrong color. This page is easily
readable with IE 5.5.

The workaround for Mozilla is to use View -> Text size -> 150%

Confirming (also in meaning making NEW) with 2001062603 Mozilla0.9.2 branch
Win32 installer build on WindowsME

I do not like this fragment of page source:

<link REL="stylesheet" TYPE="text/css" HREF="/library/shared/common/css/n6.css" />
<link REL="stylesheet" TYPE="text/css"
HREF="/library/shared/comments/css/down.css" />

<style TYPE="text/css"><!--

	PRE.clsCode { font-size:110%; } 

	PRE.clsSyntax { font-size:100%; }  

--></style>

<link REL="stylesheet" HREF="/library/shared/msdnmag/css/IE4.css" />

Well, n6.css and IE4.css? This is either CSS or evangelism problem. Moving to
Style System with the note that this may be an Evangelism problem, after all.

Comment 3

[Jacek Piskozub]

After some tests I drift to the belief that this is an INVALID bug after all.
The reason for the small font in the table cells (the whole thing is a table for
reasons unfathomed) is

	TD, TH { font-size:68%; }

in n6.css. The table text *is* rendered as 68% of the standard size - easy to
check by seeing any other <pre> text with the font size at 68%.

IE 5.5 has a very large default font size. This is the reason this text is readable.

Marking INVALID on the above observations and Asa's tests for other platforms.
Sorry for the SPAM.