The only thing I can see wrong is the newsletter box at the side. This is it on Kubuntu 9.10 Firefox 3.5.5 with MS TT Core Fonts installed: http://lh6.ggpht.com/_DKika2VA5Ys/Syo5ASKSHMI/AAAAAAAAI6s/ifW_J7bo6cg/ff _lin.png
And on Windows 7 3.5.3: http://lh3.ggpht.com/_DKika2VA5Ys/Syo5AZt3p1I/AAAAAAAAI6w/1PQxWT0Ltis/ff _win.png It does seem to be the fonts pushing the formatting of the form out. I see this on sites all the time and have just gotten used to it. I find Firefox on Windows is much faster than on Linux and even running Firefox on wine in Linux is faster than the native version. This is why I'm using Google Chrome a lot now. -----Original Message----- From: ubuntu-uk-boun...@lists.ubuntu.com [mailto:ubuntu-uk-boun...@lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of alan c Sent: 17 December 2009 13:43 To: British Ubuntu Talk Subject: [ubuntu-uk] website appearance with ubuntu and firefox I was using a website, using firefox browser, recently and found that the display gave a text overlap of a field I wanted to use, which caused difficulty. I informed the site author and the matter is now awaiting correction. However, when I was in discussion with the site author there was the suggestion that it was related to point sizes or font sizes or similar, and it seems this item is not a problem when firefox was used with windows, only with ubuntu. I am not using windows so I cannot check this. When I did look again knowing this, I saw that my Ubuntu 8.04.3 had firefox 3.0.15 and my Ubuntu 9.10 had firefox 3.5.5 which was not (quite) so bad, but still not displaying correctly. How is it that different OSs cause say, firefox, to display stuff differently? and given that this happens, is it difficult to try to use the same parameters in ubuntu as windows, or is there something fundamental causing a difficulty? My particular difficulty was with the newsletter registration fields on the right hand side of the page: http://www.hattonmarketing.co.uk/ Comments appreciated -- alan cocks Ubuntu user -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
