2009/12/17 Colin Law <clan...@googlemail.com>: > 2009/12/17 alan c <aecl...@candt.waitrose.com>: >> 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/ > > In FF (I am using 3.5.5 on ubuntu) In View, Zoom select Zoom Text Only > then zooming in/out with CTRL + and CTRL - will fix/exacerbate the > problem. I think the web designer needs to sort his divs out to > prevent one overlapping the next.
In addition if you enter the URI into the W3C validator at http://validator.w3.org/ it finds many errors. HTML errors are often the cause of appearance differences between browsers. It may or may not be an issue in this case. Colin -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
