[26721] in Athena Bugs
Re: Mozilla/Firefox on Athena
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (lisanti@mit.edu)
Wed Jan 25 15:03:30 2006
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Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 15:02:09 -0500
From: lisanti@mit.edu
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
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Hi Greg,
Thanks for your reply. Unfortunately, it wasn't the font size governing the
display. I tried your suggestion, and was able to verify that my default is
100% size. The bad display was reproducible with another user on the same
machine (SunBlade 100).
Suzana
Suzana Lisanti
Senior Web Strategist, IS&T
617-253-0100
Quoting Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>:
> On Wed, 2006-01-25 at 08:58 -0500, Suzana Lisanti wrote:
>> There is a problem with the way Mozilla/Firefox on Athena renders
>> the MIT home page on some workstations. Right now I'm in the Bldg
>> 11 cluster, on a SunBlade 100. The navigation menu is rendered too
>> "tall" and the search box overrides the credit line.
>
> It looks fine to me on a Linux-Athena machine as long as I use the
> default font size. If I hit ctrl-+ to increase the font size, I get the
> behavior you describe. Pages commonly look wrong with non-default font
> sizes (which is one of the reason I've been hoping for a full-zoom
> feature in Mozilla/Firefox as an alternative to text zoom), and I'm not
> sure the page designer can do much about that.
>
> It's possible that this behavior is different on Suns; it's not
> convenient for me to test at the moment. Can you try hitting ctrl-0 to
> ensure that you're at the default font size?
>
>
