SPARKS

rainerx · Groupie Joined: 25 Jun 2002 Posts: 110

Hello, On my Mac I have a problem to read the topic titles.
The font size is simply too small!
Here you can see a picture how it looks for me:

http://www.mediafire.com/file/gqq1dzmnzjj/@Sparksforum.jpg

Please, could you fix this?
Thanks!

sjadey · Posted: Sun May 03, 2009 3:51 pm Post subject:

There is already another thread about this.
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rainerx · Groupie Joined: 25 Jun 2002 Posts: 110

sjadey · Posted: Sun May 03, 2009 6:24 pm Post subject:

Well, you're posting in the right area but it is a Bank Holiday weekend, so maybe they're away. I don't have this problem with the fonts using Opera, Firefox and IE on Windows XP. Perhaps the problem is with your setup?

I had a similar font problem in another forum site but it turned out that while typing in a post, I had pressed Ctrl instead of Shift and the next character corresponded to a hotkey for changing the Zoom level (on Opera's view menu) by +10%. It confused me for a while as I had several other tabs open and the fonts were fine in all other tabs.
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rainerx · Groupie Joined: 25 Jun 2002 Posts: 110

sjadey · Posted: Mon May 04, 2009 8:07 am Post subject:

rainerx · Groupie Joined: 25 Jun 2002 Posts: 110

sjadey · Posted: Mon May 04, 2009 8:58 am Post subject:

So which browser are you using?
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Alex Robertson · Posted: Mon May 04, 2009 9:34 am Post subject:

It isn't that the problem is indiscernible,in my case..it's non-existent....I remember something about this previously...and wasn't there a tip on how to fix it by altering something in your profile???

Alex Robertson · Posted: Mon May 04, 2009 9:38 am Post subject:

Just looked through my profile...but can't see what can be altered.
Sorry

rainerx · Groupie Joined: 25 Jun 2002 Posts: 110

sjadey · Posted: Mon May 04, 2009 2:50 pm Post subject:

Well, what do you know? I downloaded the latest Safari (4beta.528.16) for Windows XP and I get the font problem too! It's just on the Topic titles. No idea what's causing it, so I'm rushing back to Opera. Good luck!
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E-Clect-Eddy · Posted: Mon May 04, 2009 3:06 pm Post subject:

Tried Google Chrome 1.5 and Safari 3.2.1 and they have the small topic fonts Firefox and IE6 & 8 not, nor Opera 9.64.
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sjadey · Posted: Mon May 04, 2009 3:45 pm Post subject:

From that, I deduce that either different HTML code is produced for each browser or the HTML code is the same for all browsers but each browser has its own way of interpretting the HTML code.
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rainerx · Groupie Joined: 25 Jun 2002 Posts: 110

E-Clect-Eddy · Posted: Mon May 04, 2009 7:28 pm Post subject:

sjadey · Posted: Mon May 04, 2009 8:01 pm Post subject:

rainerx · Groupie Joined: 25 Jun 2002 Posts: 110

sjadey · Posted: Tue May 05, 2009 9:42 am Post subject:

If the problem was in the phpBB code on this forum then it would present itself in all browsers.

E-Clect-Eddy · Posted: Tue May 05, 2009 3:52 pm Post subject:

There are to many variables in finding the origin of this problem or rather bug.

PHP is used to buildt the pages of this website and even though i'm no webmaster or HTML-guru i do remember hearing this:

When you come to this site (or this page), each computer sends a lot of data across saying something like: hi, i am an xp computer with service pack 3 and IE6 version xxxx, i have java runtime engine JRE 1.6.13 installed and i do have flash plugin. Please send me the data so i can view this page on my machine.

So than the server over here process that info and send data across to each requester, and so the data i receive is somewhat different to that you'll receive. So many more things could have gone wrong or even a combination of errors.

Websites need to be optimized and made to fit the needs of every popular browser cos all (versions of) browsers interpreted the data send by the server in a different way. There are ofcourse standards but untill everybody uses them (websites- and browser-builders) it is a bit of a problem for some.

"I could start a song a tenor and then end as bass"

Meaning this site could have been buildt fine but now the rules might have changed and so it is no longer up to standard.
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