Re: A Font Size is a Font Size is a Font Size ... not in Iceweasel it's not!
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 13:48:24 +0200, 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?
Is this a pixels versus points naming convention issue?
As an experiment (all on one line)
echo "<html><p style="font-size:12px">12px test</p><p style="font-size:12pt">12pt test</p></html>" > test.html
and then open test.html with Iceweasel.
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