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Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2006 04:28:54 +0200
From: Tuukka Tolvanen <tuukka.tolvanen@gmail.com>
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To: Tommy Gildseth <gildseth@start.no>
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Subject: Re: geckofixes.css harmful on linux
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Tommy Gildseth kirjoitti:
> Tuukka Tolvanen wrote:

>> http://www.postgresql.org//layout/css/blue/geckofixes.css included 
>> from http://www.postgresql.org/layout/js/geckostyle.js included from 
>> e.g. http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/datatype.html , says

>> linux). That is, the fixed width text in documentation is 
>> disproportionately large unless the rules specified in that file are 
>> dropped (the editcss extension is practical for testing fwiw).
> 
> It doesn't seem to have the same effect in my browser (Firefox 1.0.4 on 
> Debian). It looks just fine, but if I use editcss to remove the style 
> rules included from geckofixes.css, the text becomes *really* tiny.
> Also tested in konqueror, and it looks fine there as well.

Hm, that's too bad. Guess it's a matter of default monospace fonts 
having wildly different x-heights, then. Yeeeah, courier new does look 
tiny, about 3/4 the height of bitstream vera sans mono, and I guess 
those two are the common ones :(

comparison, with a few liveCDs so personal settings don't come into play:
- win98: fine in firefox & explorer
- knoppix: grossly oversized in konqueror, signifigantly in firefox
- ubuntu: badly oversized in konqueror, reasonable in firefox

*sigh*, *shrug*

't.