Re: Large fixed-width text

Petr Jelinek wrote:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > When reading our web-based server documentation in Ubuntu Firefox, I
> > have always seen overly-large fixed-width text.  In looking at our CSS
> > files, specifically text.css, I see:
> >
> >     #txtArchives pre {
> >         font-size:150%;
> >     }
> >     #txtArchives tt {
> >         font-size:150%;
> >     }
> >
> > This certainly looks wrong, and explains what I am seeing.  Does anyone
> > know why it is there?
> >
> > The actual code that is causing a problem in my browser is in
> > geckofixes.css:
> >
> >     #docContainer tt, #docContainer pre, #docContainer code {
> >         font-size:1.4em;
> >     }
> >   
> 
> I am not on www team but I bet it's because with 1em (100%) the text is 
> tiny in Firefox under Windows in those elements.

So why is that?  Is this a known bug in Firefox?  Is it documented?  Can
we apply the fix only to broken Firefox versions?  The lack of comments
in the CSS file makes this issue unclear to me.

--  Bruce Momjian  <bruce@momjian.us>        http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB
http://enterprisedb.com
 + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. +