Re: Large fixed-width text

Petr Jelinek wrote:
> >>> The actual code that is causing a problem in my browser is in
> >>> geckofixes.css:
> >>>
> >>> #docContainer tt, #docContainer pre, #docContainer code {
> >>> font-size:1.4em;
> >>> }
> >>>
> >>>
> >> I am not on www team but I bet it's because with 1em (100%) the text is
> >> tiny in Firefox under Windows in those elements.
> >>
> >
> > So why is that? Is this a known bug in Firefox? Is it documented? Can
> > we apply the fix only to broken Firefox versions? The lack of comments
> > in the CSS file makes this issue unclear to me.
> >
>
> It's known behavior, not a bug.
> By default FF on Windows (not sure about other OSes, but on Jaunty my FF
> does it too), Safari, Chrome all choose 13px font size for monospace and
> 16px for everything else (so maybe you changed default font size for
> monospaced fonts in your FF?). And since we have 76% (docs) and 69%

Yes, I did change my default font sizes in Firefox, which explains why
most people are not seeing the problem.

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