Question

We installed version TWiki-4.1.0, Tue, 16 Jan 2007, build 12567, Plugin API version 1.11 recently. Testing the default output on IE7 we see large font sizes for both the content and the navigation menu. Testing the output in FF2 we don't see the same font sizes (i.e. the navigation menu and the content have different font sizes as expected). When we view Twiki.org's site on IE7 everything looks fine.

We are concerned that if we tweak the stylesheets to make the fonts work for us, we'll cause differences between IE7 and FF2 output. Is there something we are missing in our default installation?

I should note that the only web/topic we can find on our installation that has the correct sizes is:

http://twikitest.interactsys.com/twiki/bin/changes/Main

Everything else is too large.

Screen Shots

• My installation font sizes:
  

• Twiki.org font sizes:
  

Environment

-- BrianBeaudet - 06 Feb 2007

Answer

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To verify your style sheets, I could not access the above url. Is your site public?

-- ArthurClemens - 06 Feb 2007

Unfortunately, it's not. Could you tell me what to verify? Thanks.

-- BrianBeaudet - 07 Feb 2007

You could verify if you find any differences in the style sheet style.css here on twiki.org (/p/pub/TWiki04x01/PatternSkin/style.css) and on your installation (probably /pub/TWiki/PatternSkin/style.css).

-- ArthurClemens - 07 Feb 2007

The only difference (using a text comparing tool) is that we added:

#patternTopBarContents table {
   border:0px none;
}

in order to get rid of a 1 pixel border surrounding the tables in FF2.

-- BrianBeaudet - 08 Feb 2007

You could also check for empty newlines at the start of the generated HTML document. That sometimes causes browsers to misrender.

-- ArthurClemens - 08 Feb 2007

Will do. By the way, one of our engineers tweaked the css styles so that we now get correct rendering when comparing the output from the two browsers. I'm wondering if this is an issue with other's after having installed 4.1.

-- BrianBeaudet - 09 Feb 2007

In any case I am curious for this tweak.

-- ArthurClemens - 09 Feb 2007