On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 13:48:24 +0200, Klistvud (quotati...@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. -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Please reply to the list only. Do NOT send copies directly to me. Debian on the NSLU2: http://bobcox.com/slug/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org