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Issue #69 Update (Edit) "CSS uses evil pixel sizing"
 Status Pending, skin/bug critical
To followup, visit:
  http://collector.zope.org/ZopeOrg/69

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= Edit - Entry #4 by klm on Aug 9, 2004 2:04 pm

 Changes: submitter email, edited transcript, importance (medium => critical)
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= Comment - Entry #3 by klm on Aug 9, 2004 2:04 pm

I think this is a serious problem.  People who set their browser font sizes larger than some point can't get at the collector "actions" links - and so can't followup on issues, etc!
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= Comment - Entry #2 by slinkp on Jul 22, 2004 12:28 pm

I think this one needs a design guru to fix it.

It's not simply a problem with using px for sizes.
As a quick experiment I tried globally substituting pt for px on a local copy of this page with all its stylesheets, and mozilla 1.4 still demonstrates the same overlapping/obscuring problems at 120% zoom.

(note: i had to fiddle a bit for this experiment - mozilla's "save as -> complete" feature does not seem to pick up stylesheets included via a <style> tag.)

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= Request - Entry #1 by gvanrossum on Apr 14, 2003 3:20 pm

The CSS apparently uses pixels to size things, and that's evil when you don't know the font size on the target browser.  Using Mozilla 1.0, I did this:

- go to http://dev.nzo.zope.org/Tracker

- change Text zoom to 120%

- the "View", "Browse" and "New" links near the top of the page nearly disappear under the part of the screen where "Log in" and "Join" are listed

- change Text zoom to 150% and those links disappear altogether; if the page isn't very wide, the "search" button is displayed on top of the "feature requests" text

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