- From: Peter Kerr <p.kerr@auckland.ac.nz>
- Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2007 11:19:28 +1300
- To: Leon Stringer <leon.stringer@ntlworld.com>
- Cc: <Irene.Vatton@inrialpes.fr>, <www-amaya@w3.org>
On 7/12/2007, at 6:31 AM, Leon Stringer wrote: > > I'm not sure how to describe this so I've attached a screen shot of > the same file in Firefox and Amaya with the default zoom/font-size > in both. > from that screen shot I find that Amaya is rendering the default (12pt) with [x-height + ascender + descender] = 12 pixels with a spacing between lines ascender <-> descender = 9 pixel FF is rendering its letters at 15 pixels + spacing 20 pixels. Other differences: Amaya has serif font with x-height 50% of total letter height Amaya characters are rendered in grayscale FF has a sans-serif font with x-height 60% which will look bigger even without the larger rendering. FF characters are rendered in color. It seems to me that Amaya is rendering the 12pt with about the correct number of pixels. Is FF using a default font which is deliberately chosen having larger glyphs to overcome those sites which rely on some broken feature of IE? The Mac browser Safari has problems with many sites that render far too small. My guess is they were tested only on IE. FWIW the default font for Safari was Lucida Grande which has the largest glyphs of all Apple installed plaintext roman fonts. Safari 3.04 now uses Times 14pt as default Next step: try setting the default font for FF to be the same as for Amaya (Times? 12pt?) and repeat the experiment.... Peter Kerr
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