Font Sizes in different browsers
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I’m not trying to do anything fancy – I’m just using the WordPress Classic 1.5 theme in my blog and I’m noticing that the fonts appear RADICALLY different sizes on different browsers. I’ve tried a whole bunch of other canned WordPress themes available at my hosting company (HostMySite.com) with the same results. In general the Microsoft Internet Explorer (vers. 7) fonts appear about 50% to 2X bigger than in Firefox.
I have Internet Explorer Text Size set to “medium” and Firefox set to “Normal”. If I set the text in IE to “smallest” it approximates the size in Mozilla, but I can’t run that way, and anyway, NONE of us have any control over what size our blog visitors have their browser text set to.
What’s the workaround for this?
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BTW – I just looked at this thread, i.e., the one I’m posting in right now – and it ALSO has this problem! So if WordPress.com itself cannot manage a consistent apperance accross different major browsers is there any hope?
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Can we’ve a screenshot for the IE? Ty!
I don’t know how to embed an image in this forum but here’s a URL.
N.B. IGNORE the browser URLs in these images – “http://blog.music4peter.com/” – that’s a blog of mine under contstruction so it will probably change before most people go there to have a lok of their own.
And, anyway, as I said in my previous post – the SAME problem occurs right here in this forum!
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…. how do I turn off this @#$%! strong setting?!
This thread looks fine for me.
But what’s your point? YOU may have set or turned your browsers’ settings so IE and Mozilla match – I can do the same thing – but we have no way to make our visitors do that. Most people use IE and Firefox with their default settings so it has to look right with those settings.
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Well Classic sucks anyway. It is about 4 years behind the latest developments in web design.
And now look what you did. Jeez.
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Well Classic sucks anyway. It is about 4 years behind the latest developments in web design.
. . . that doesn’t explain why the site we’re having this discussion on right now also looks different in my IE and Mozilla.
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plnelson would you please go back to the thread where you left the bold tag unclosed and fix it. No wonder it looks wierd.
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Most sites look different in different browsers and on different systems. See also this thread:
https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic.php?id=13811&page&replies=17 -
plnelson would you please go back to the thread where you left the bold tag unclosed and fix it. No wonder it looks wierd.
plnelson can’t. The “Edit” link is gone.
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Well the font sizes on badly implemented themes look different in different browsers. Sure they do.
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Yeah, I reckoned someone forgot to close a < strong > tag, so I added a < /strong > in my post :)
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Thanks, kimik0. Hey, “kimik0 closed the code” would be a great title for a song or something.
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Yeah, I reckoned someone forgot to close a < strong > tag, so I added a < /strong > in my post :)
I did that in my very next post and it didn’t work for me! I started my next post with that close tag, right before the “…. how do I turn off this @#$%! strong setting?!” Is there a trick to it?
(why doesn’t this forum have a “preview” feature?)
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Well the font sizes on badly implemented themes look different in different browsers. Sure they do.
So are you saying this forum is also badly implemented?
My previous posts were from home; I’m posting now from work on IE6, with a whole different screen resolution but I’m still seeing huge differences between IE and FF, both in this forum and in the Classic theme I mentioned earlier (and in the other default themes I looked at) .
I agree with kimik0 that different browsers look different but I think this is a pretty extreme difference and I agree that well-designed sites deal with different browsers better.
I just want to blog – I don’t want to write a theme – so what’s the solution to this?
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So are you saying this forum is also badly implemented?
The very idea:)
But you could read the CSS yosself. Held together with duct tape. -
” . . . duct tape.”
OK, fine, whatever, but as I said, I’m not interested in writing or debugging CSS or PHP; I just want to blog.So are there any good themes I can use as-is or with just a few tweaks, say to add an image to the header, so I can get more-or-less consistent appearance across major browsers? (I’ll settle for consistency across the last several rev’s of FF and IE).
I write software all day at work; I don’t want to spend my evenings editing blogging code; I just want to blog. I thought that was the whole idea of WordPress – you could just start blogging without having to put on a propellor beanie and geek out.
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