90124 - cbsmarketwatch.com - Some fonts in this page are displayed too small

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect, P1)

Description

[Dvir]

Some of the text in cbsmarketwatch.com (and other pages of the site) is
displayed too small, and almost unreadable. Other fonts are displayed correctly.
It is easy to see the difference when opening the same page in Mozilla & IE5.5 .
I saw it on Windows 98 & NT.
This problem is very irritating when reading articles in this Site. All these
articles are displayed with very small font. one example is:
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/yhoo/story.asp?guid=%7BE0723B9C-A80F-40EA-BEBB-A2FDAC030D07%7D&siteid=myyahoo&dist=myyahoo

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Over to evangelism.  The stylesheet is served up from:
http://www.marketwatch.com/styles/css/global.asp

Loading it in Mozilla, one sees the following:

BODY { font-size:x-small; } P { font-size: x-small; }

and so on. In NS 4.x the font-size is set to "small".  What is it set to in IE?

Looks like bad/malicious server-side sniffing to me.  Dvir, care to complain to
the site?

Comment 2

[Dvir]

In IE the font size is set to x-small as well, but the display looks identical
to Netscape 4.
I don't mind emailing the site and describing the problem, but i don't think I
can be much of a help for them if it becomes more technical.

Comment 3

[Dvir]

ok.
I logged the complaint a few days ago and got a reply saying that they will
investigate the problem.

Comment 4

[Dvir]

The problem seems to be fixed in the last few days.

Comment 5

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

All Evangelism Bugs are now in the Product Tech Evangelism. See bug 86997 for
details.

Comment 6

[Brant Gurganus]

Verified
2002022703/WinXP