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Date:      Fri, 11 Nov 2005 11:30:37 +0100
From:      Marc Fonvieille <blackend@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Alex Dupre <ale@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        freebsd-www@FreeBSD.org, doc-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-doc@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: www/en/layout/css global.css
Message-ID:  <20051111103036.GC600@gothic.blackend.org>
In-Reply-To: <43746EB5.80001@FreeBSD.org>
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On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 11:13:09AM +0100, Alex Dupre wrote:
> Marc Fonvieille wrote:
> >>>What's your resolution?
> >>
> >>1280x1024 on a 19" LCD panel (but I have th exact rendering on a 
> >>1152x864 19" CRT monitor).
> >>
> >>
> >>>What's your dpi setting (xdpyinfo | grep resolution)?
> >>
> >>(--) RADEON(0): Display dimensions: (380, 300) mm
> >>(--) RADEON(0): DPI set to (85, 86)
> 
> For the records, on the CRT I have these values (ops, it's a 17"):
> 
> (--) ATI(0): Display dimensions: (300, 230) mm
> (--) ATI(0): DPI set to (97, 95)
> 
> 
> >I really wonder about the dpi setting under mozilla based browsers.
> >Could you try Preferences>Fonts&Colors>Display resolution>Other ?
> >It seems that users with large screen/resolution are victims of the
> >big font issue.
> 
> Currently I'm using System settings, what sort of tests would you like I 
> try?
> 

If you do Preferences>Fonts&Colors>Display resolution>Other in Firefox
you get a rule on the screen that allow you to set a "correct" (?) DPI
setting.  Actually you should try to force the DPI setting to 96 in
Firefox and see the difference.  Well I reverted the changes I did on
global.css but it may be possible to see the difference on other web
sites.

Marc



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