I don't understand, Beverly. Do the small and normal fonts look different than before, or the same?
t edit Oh wait - you're talking about Rio's problem upthread? So you're saying it looks right to you now, but it didn't before?
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Jon B. - Oct 23, 2002 11:02:23 pm PDT #890 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Kat - Oct 23, 2002 11:09:46 pm PDT #891 of 10000
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
WOW! All my fonts are huge now. It's kinda pleasant given my blindness. But whacky.
Netscape 4.78 Windows 95.
Beverly - Oct 23, 2002 11:39:22 pm PDT #892 of 10000
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The small fonts are small on my screen, Jon, and always have been. Since you did whatever you said you were going to do (in your announcement in Press), nothing whatever seems to have changed on my screen.
I'm assuming this is a good thing, that I should be glad everything hasn't gone huge?
§ ita § - Oct 23, 2002 11:42:01 pm PDT #893 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Stuff's pretty large for me, Opera 6.05, W2K, but not unworkably so.
Rob - Oct 23, 2002 11:46:21 pm PDT #894 of 10000
Here's a different problem. Sometimes, from home, I can't read the Phoenix with Mozilla. I can read it fine with IE.
It doesn't always fail, but when it does, it seems to always hang forever with "Sending request to www.buffista.org..." in the status bar.
This never happens from work, only from home.
Not a big deal, just thought I'd mention it.
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Explorer Version: 5.2.2 (5010.1)
DXMachina - Oct 24, 2002 6:00:31 am PDT #895 of 10000
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Woo and Hoo, Jon! That's done the trick. It fixes that other glitch I mentioned, too.
One other reason that the font may seem bigger than usual is that the site's default font, Verdana, is designed for legibility, so the individual characters are a bit larger than the equivalent point size of Arial or Helvetica. You can adjust this by adjusting the font size settings in your browser preferences.
The side effect of reducing the default point size in the browser (if Verdana is not your browser default font) is that sites that don't use Verdana as a default are now displayed in teeny little letters.
DXMachina - Oct 24, 2002 6:01:56 am PDT #896 of 10000
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Rob, I use Mozilla on a PC both at home and at work, and I haven't had any problems, except on those evenings when the hosting service has been down, like last Monday(?) night.
Theodosia - Oct 24, 2002 6:31:07 am PDT #897 of 10000
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Yeah, I had to go and reduce the Normal font size in Opera. Not a big problem.
Sheryl - Oct 24, 2002 6:47:27 am PDT #898 of 10000
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Um, I'm noticing that quoted material is showing rather small on my machine. (Everthing else is the same size as before) Anyone else seeing that?
Jon B. - Oct 24, 2002 6:54:21 am PDT #899 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Quoted material uses a fixed width font which probably has a separate adjustment in your browser's preferences.