On Sun, 2012-10-21 at 11:34 +0000, mike lan wrote: > why is html/css display on fedora on firefox and google chrome alike > is different than on other os ? some times the size of a font can > break the display of a site which looks right on windows and not on > fedora. > > is there a way to work around this issue by tweaking some settings on > firefox and google chrome ?
Every browser is slightly different in how it behaves, there will be some differences, some more obvious than others. The fonts installed by default are different on different OSs, so you could be missing something that the other is not. The rendering engines are different on different operating systems, and graphic cards (and their drivers), so you can see differences in absolute font sizing, aspect (horizontal versus vertical), slightly different resolutions, and clarity of the text. For a meaningful appraisal, you'd need to give some specific example sites to look at. A common issue has been, for many years, authors specifying certain fonts at certain sizes. For example, a large font like Verdana, to be drawn at a smaller than normal size, so it looks similar in size to other common fonts. Then, when you view the page without Verdana on your system, the text is annoyingly too small. A similar issue occurs when people fudge around with their DPI settings to scale the fonts on their desktop (instead of changing the size of the fonts). The rendering engine starts drawing fonts at different sizes than expected, often without other graphical objects, or page dimensions, scaling to the same degree. You can end up with big fonts inside little boxes, with overlapping text. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 3.6.2-4.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Oct 17 02:43:21 UTC 2012 x86_64 All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point trying to privately email me, I will only read messages posted to the public lists.
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