[TAG] Viewing homestead.com web pages

[Lew Pitcher]

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On February 19, 2006 15:51, Bob van der Poel wrote:
> 
> Just wondering if there is a simple (complex? Any?) solution to viewing 
> certain websites which rely way too much on absolute positioning code? 
> Most sites on www.homestead.com are quite un-viewable on my system with 
> Firefox. They render somewhat better with Opera.

For what it's worth, I tried several sites from the "site sampler" on 
www.homestead.com, and didn't find any readability (or operability) issues 
with Firefox 1.5.0.1 running in Slackware Linux 10.1

> I think the problem is one of expected font and font size. I use a 
> fairly large min. size ... but don't know if this is the problem or not.

- From my Firefox Preferences window, my
  Default Font -> Bitstream Vera Serif (size 12)
  Proportional -> Serif (size 12)
  Serif -> Bitstream Vera Serif
  San Serif -> Bitstream Vera Sans
  Monospace -> Bitsream Vera Sans Mono (size 12)
  Display Resolution -> 96 dpi
  Minimum Font size -> 12
  "Allow pages to choose their own fonts" checked
  Default Character Encoding -> Western (ISO-8859-1)

> Here's an example of something completely impossible to read: 
> http://www.yahkkingsgate.homestead.com/ using Firefox. Again, it fares 
> better (but still pretty ugly) in Opera. I don't have a windows box 
> handy, but am assuming that it renders okay using IE.

Renders well for me, same settings as above.



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Lew Pitcher

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