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Bernd vdB wrote:
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I can find no such option in Firefox 2.0.0.1 on Mac OS X. What operating system are you running?
Windows XP, sorry for being a bit autistic - I have no other OS with a gui running here and assumed Firefox would have the same features on every platform. But, am I completely wrong to assume that the majority of wikipedia users has got Windows running (which doesn't mean that there would be no good reasons to go elsewhere)?
I asked you what *you* were running so I could try to reproduce the problem *you* described.
Sounds like a bug in Firefox; a printing scaling feature ought to work regardless of which method was used to set font sizes ..
No, really, Firefix works just as designed and as specified.
Well, that would be a surprise; can you show me the design specifications for Firefox's print scaling feature? :)
In fact, a quick search through bugzilla shows that this is a known bug:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=205001 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=153080 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=177805
So I rather suspect that this is not "as designed and as specified" at all.
A fixed font size is _meant_ to render fixed, and: "Use of percentage values, or values in 'em's, leads to more robust and cascadable style sheets." ( http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/fonts.html#font-size-props )
This isn't a cascade issue; it's a bug in Mozilla's Gecko renderer as to how it handles print scaling. Scaling, by definition, would need to change the logical resolution of those document absolute units as well. (And in fact the behavior is correct when printing from Firefox on Mac OS X, so the bug appears limited to the printing subsystem on some other platforms.)
And, have a look at: http://en.wikipedia.org/skins-1.5/monobook/main.css?41 .. and you fill not one font-size in 'pt', only percent, ems or 'small' etc.
I'm not sure what you're trying to say here. If you're trying to convince us that the use of different units in one of our style sheets means that there is not a bug in Firefox's printing modules on some platforms, I don't think I'm convinced. ;)
That doesn't mean we can't change the print stylesheet to compensate, but please don't stray off into unrelated territory.
Just because I ask you questions about a bug I can't reproduce on my system without more information from you doesn't mean I'm out to get you.
- -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com / brion @ wikimedia.org)