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Bernd vdB wrote:
you wrote:
...
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)
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