IE font resize bug
Regular
Posted: Sat, 2008-05-10 17:09
I have a fairly simple page laid out with em's and %'s (no px), standard fonts etc.:
http://www.wiseware.com/iebugdemo
In IE it produces some garbage when the text is resized to 110% or 90% (perhaps at other levels, too). FF2 and Opera9 and Safari3, resize this page and its text without any problem.
I tried substituting some lorem ipsum text for my content, but then the problem was harder to reproduce. (The idea that it might depend on my deathless prose seems a little far-fetched, but, frankly, I am out of ideas.)
I am using WinXP Pro SP2 and IE7 7.0.5037.11
The garbage shows in the first paragraph though in different places at 110% and 90%.
Any explanation of what is going on here would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
JAS
Regular
Posts: 31
Joined: 2008-03-11
Hey This works fine in IE6.
Posted: Sat, 2008-05-10 18:33
Hey
This works fine in IE6. What character encoding have you used to put the code together? Notepad defaults to Unicode-8 which causes some funny characters to appear at the start of the page on certain browsers, you can change it to ISO-8859-1 using EditPad Lite (free download) or any other decent text editor.
Chris
Regular
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Joined: 2006-04-12
Well, perhaps it's only a
Posted: Sat, 2008-05-10 18:51
Well, perhaps it's only a problem in IE7.
I use Notepad++, and the text in question includes no character outside the standard ASCII set, so I don't think the encoding can be the problem. If you get a chance to look at the page with IE7, I would be interested to hear what you find.
Thanks,
JAS
Elder
Posts: 1093
Joined: 2004-08-14
For me, the problem is
Posted: Sat, 2008-05-10 19:31
For me, the problem is 145%.
There are a lot of bugs reported with the zoom in ie 7.
Have a look there:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/933053/en-us/