Re: A Font Size is a Font Size is a Font Size ... not in Iceweasel it's not!
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 7:48 PM, Klistvud <quotations@aliceadsl.fr> wrote:
> Howdy, List!
>
> I bet all Iceweasel (or FireFox, for that matter) users have noticed
> this.
>
> Iceweasel/FireFox fonts are waaay smaller than your desktop fonts. For
> example, if you limit the smallest font in Iceweasel to the size of
> your menu/desktop/GUI fonts, it will actually be displayed as a tiny
> font of about half their size. Vice versa, to get
> web pages to display fonts visually equivalent to, say, your size-8
> menu font, you must set the smallest Iceweasel font to as
> high as
> 14!
>
> I'd be really grateful if a person skilled in the art would explain
> this to me. Why is a size-14 font in Iceweasel visually no bigger than
> a size-8 font in the rest of the
> GUI??? When did font sizes become a matter of... uhm, opinion?
what i might need to remind you is that almost all the web pages
define the font size for each element inside the pages(except those
badly made pages which forget to define the font size, then the font
size you setup in browser will apply to it).
>
> TIA
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