How to fix huge text in Firefox 3 Beta 5 on Kubuntu 8.04
Posted on: Saturday, May 3rd, 2008 at 10:37 pm by Anup Shah
Firefox 3.0 beta 5 on Kubuntu 8.04 renders some text way too big. It turns out to be an issue when using points for your font size units in CSS (although generally relative units should be preferred, anyway!). You can fix this by
- Going to about:config
- Look for the setting called
layout.css.dpi. The default value is -1. - Change it to 96
The problem appears not to be Firefox, but the GNOME window manager’s settings. However, I don’t know how to change those when running KDE instead of GNOME. Anyone know?
Firebug may also have trouble running so this post has a tip on how to sort that out.
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IE8 meta switch switch!
Posted on: Wednesday, March 5th, 2008 at 4:12 pm by Anup Shah
A little while back the web development blogs were abuzz with Microsoft’s announcement that IE 8 will, by default, render in IE7 mode, so as not to “break the web.”
Well, it seems that the IE team have decided to change that decision, and decided that IE8 will, by default, interpret web content in the most standards compliant way it can.
IE8 – meta switch = IE7!?
Posted on: Saturday, February 9th, 2008 at 3:52 pm by Anup Shah
So Microsoft announced a way to support standards without “breaking the web.”
The challenge they had was to find a way to “enable (and encourage) interoperable web development, but don’t force IE to break pages that work properly in IE today.”
They eventually settled for a <meta>-based “opt-in to the browser version I tested with” strategy.
What this means is that if you as a web developer want IE 8 to render according to their best implementation of standards then you opt in by adding a particular meta element into your HTML (or send down a similar HTTP header in the response).
In other words, for web developers trying to do the right thing they must pay a small “don’t-break-the-IE-web tax!”
Many prominent web developers and designers have been highly critical of this. But, ironically, is this actually a positive thing in the long run?
Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 8 to Speed Up Web Development?
Posted on: Thursday, December 20th, 2007 at 4:14 am by Anup Shah
No sooner had I written about how Internet Explorer currently slows down web development, the IE team have announced that IE8, under development, is now rendering the Acid2 test correctly.
This is a great step forward.
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Microsoft’s Internet Explorer Slows Down Web Development
Posted on: Friday, December 14th, 2007 at 10:08 pm by Anup Shah
This has been said so many times on the web by web developers frustrated at IE’s rendering bugs, lack of progress in support for web technologies, and so on, that at first I didn’t want to bother writing this post. However, a number of other posts on this site make reference to this point and I end up repeating myself, side tracking from the point at hand. For that reason, and for the benefit of some readers not familiar with this issue, this post serves as a summary of those concerns.
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Microsoft to make Internet Explorer 7 more widely available
Posted on: Thursday, October 4th, 2007 at 11:47 pm by Anup Shah
Microsoft is making IE 7 more widely available. IE 7 still has to catch up with the other modern browsers but this seems to be a good thing from a web developer’s perspective as IE 6 is so much more buggy. Or is it…?
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