FW: Opera style problem

FYI.

Since Andrew Cunningham sent something out on the geo list recently
about use of the BOM, I thought I'd forward this latest anecdote that
reinforces any advice not to use the utf-8 BOM. It perhaps also suggests
that we should mount a campaign to ensure that developers of user agents
and tools don't produce or fall over the BOM.

RI

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Richard Ishida
W3C

tel: +44 1753 480 292
http://www.w3.org/International/
http://www.w3.org/People/Ishida/



-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Ishida [mailto:ishida@w3.org] 
Sent: 24 July 2003 10:31
To: 'Bert Bos'
Cc: Richard Ishida
Subject: RE: Opera style problem


Thanks for that!  

I removed the BOM and it seemed to do the trick.  Hmm.  I don't see how
the average user will understand that.  Perhaps we should advise the
Opera guys.

That utf-8 BOM is certainly a pain.

Cheers!

RI

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Richard Ishida
W3C

tel: +44 1753 480 292
http://www.w3.org/International/ http://www.w3.org/People/Ishida/



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bert Bos [mailto:bert@w3.org]
> Sent: 24 July 2003 10:23
> To: ishida@w3.org
> Subject: Re: Opera style problem
> 
> 
> Hello Richard,
> 
> > If I look at http://www.w3.org/People/Ishida/ (still under
> > re-development) in Opera 7.11 what I see is the default font size.
> > 
> > There are two style sheets, ishida.css and ishida-w3c.css (which is
> > imported into the xhtml).
> > 
> > I did the following tests on my PC:
> > 
> > If I change the font-size in ishida.css body {} to say 2em I see a
> > difference in IE, NN, Moz, but not in Opera.
> > 
> > If I add font-size: 2em; to the body {} in ishida-w3c.css I
> *do* see a
> > difference in Opera.
> > 
> > If I add font-size: 2em; to say div.content {} back in ishida.css I
> > also see a difference.
> 
> I think it is the BOM at the start of ishida.css that
> confuses Opera. The other file, ishida-w3c.css, doesn't have a BOM.
> 
> Maybe forcing Apache to serve the file with charset=UTF-8
> helps. Or remove the BOM. Or you can try inserting something 
> like this between the BOM and the first rule:
> 
>    ignore this { }
> 
> 
> 
> Bert
> -- 
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