2009/12/17 alan c <aecl...@candt.waitrose.com>: > I was using a website, using firefox browser, recently and found that > the display gave a text overlap of a field I wanted to use, which > caused difficulty. I informed the site author and the matter is now > awaiting correction. > > However, when I was in discussion with the site author there was the > suggestion that it was related to point sizes or font sizes or > similar, and it seems this item is not a problem when firefox was used > with windows, only with ubuntu. I am not using windows so I cannot > check this. > > When I did look again knowing this, I saw that my Ubuntu 8.04.3 had > firefox 3.0.15 and my Ubuntu 9.10 had firefox 3.5.5 which was not > (quite) so bad, but still not displaying correctly. > > How is it that different OSs cause say, firefox, to display stuff > differently? and given that this happens, is it difficult to try to > use the same parameters in ubuntu as windows, or is there something > fundamental causing a difficulty? > > My particular difficulty was with the newsletter registration fields > on the right hand side of the page: > http://www.hattonmarketing.co.uk/
In FF (I am using 3.5.5 on ubuntu) In View, Zoom select Zoom Text Only then zooming in/out with CTRL + and CTRL - will fix/exacerbate the problem. I think the web designer needs to sort his divs out to prevent one overlapping the next. Colin -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
