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Date:      Sat, 27 Oct 2001 17:22:44 +0000
From:      Michael Collette <metrol@earthlink.net>
To:        FreeBSD <freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Mozilla font rendering
Message-ID:  <20011028002409.435C337B408@hub.freebsd.org>

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Just an FYI, I just ran through the compile of Mozilla 0.9.5, which installed 
without any problems.  Then when I got the thing up and running I found that 
the font rendering for style sheets using smaller fonts was all dinked.  Mind 
you, I'm also using xfstt to true type support so I can see what things look 
like on a Windows box.  Site in question...

http://www.testequity.com/

With 0.9.4 the fonts on this site rendered flawlessly.  Other than some of 
the form objects it rendered this site exactly as it would appear on Windows. 
Pretty important stuff for web development.  As a reference, this site still 
renders properly using Netscape 4.78.

For some more main stream examples, Google's front page has it's fonts all 
dinked as well.  MSN, now that it's showing up for Moz again, looks great in 
0.9.4, and dinked in 0.9.5.  This one is NOT Microsoft's fault.

http://www.google.com/
http://www.msn.com/

I posted a question over on Mozilla's general newsgroup already, and will be 
doing some hunting around bugzilla for futher information.  As it is, if the 
web browser is really important to you I'd suggest holding off on 0.9.5 for a 
little while.  I've already uninstalled it myself and put 0.9.4 back on from 
a package.

The REALLY clever bit is trying to take Galeon back to a previous version as 
all the dependencies for the prior version got updated one tiny notch above 
where I'm at with Gnome.  I was dirt stupid and upgrading Galeon prior to 
doing the same Mozilla itself.  I definitely won't be making that mistake 
again.  Pretty much have to completely reinstall the entirety of Gnome so 
things stay in sync.  Seems like every component has three dependancies that 
incremented by 0.0.1.  I don't even run Gnome, just Galeon for crying out 
loud.  Okay, rant over.

Later on,
-- 
"A short saying often contains much wisdom."
 -Sophocles

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