- From: Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>
- Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2013 00:32:15 +0200
- To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?"G\=E9rard\?\= Talbot" <css21testsuite@gtalbot.org>
- Cc: "Public css-testsuite mailing list" <public-css-testsuite@w3.org>
"Gérard Talbot" wrote:
> http://test.csswg.org/source/contributors/opera/submitted/multicol/multicol-count-002.xht
>
>
> Browsers like Firefox 22 and Chrome 28.0.1500.71 and IE9+ have a default
> font-size for monospace font which is not what the default medium
> font-size is for browser default font size.
>
> And Firefox 22 and Chrome 28.0.1500.71 appear to have a bug when dealing
> with the following rule:
>
> div
> {
> font-family: monospace;
> font-size: 1em;
> (...)
> }
>
> Now, if default font-size for body is 16px (medium), then I would expect
> the div to use 16px and not 12px (Firefox default font-size for
> monospace font under Linux) and not 13px (Firefox default font-size for
> monospace font under Windows and Chrome's default font-size for
> monospace font for all platforms). So, there is, in my opinion, a bug in
> Firefox 22 and in Chrome 28.0.1500.71 on this. Now, if the browser uses
> 12px or 13px, then distribution of inline content among the 5 column
> boxes changes and the resulting distribution can not be reliably
> predicted. So, I propose this Ahem-based replacement:
>
> http://www.gtalbot.org/BrowserBugsSection/CSS3Multi-Columns/Opera/multicol-count-002-GT.xht
>
> http://www.gtalbot.org/BrowserBugsSection/CSS3Multi-Columns/Opera/multicol-count-002-GT-ref.xht
Looks good -- it's easy to see if one passes!
-h&kon
Håkon Wium Lie CTO °þe®ª
howcome@opera.com http://people.opera.com/howcome
Received on Sunday, 28 July 2013 22:32:50 UTC