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Bug 525364 - Not possible to reduce the size of the font on the BBC News web site
Not possible to reduce the size of the font on the BBC News web site
Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE
Product: epiphany
Classification: Core
Component: [obsolete] Backend:Mozilla
2.22.x
Other All
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Assigned To: Epiphany Maintainers
Epiphany Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2008-03-31 16:01 UTC by Sam Morris
Modified: 2010-03-19 12:14 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.21/2.22


Description Sam Morris 2008-03-31 16:01:01 UTC 
Please describe the problem:
The BBC have launched a new and "improved" web site recently. Somehow it manages to disable the browser's ability to resize the text on the pages.

Steps to reproduce:
1. Visit http://news.bbc.co.uk/
2. Press Ctrl+- a few times. Even though the font size goes down to 50%, the body text remains the same size (the size of the menu fonts does shrink though).
3. Press Ctrl++ a few times. The body fonts only get larger at 175% and above.


Actual results:


Expected results:
If I press ctrl+- the fonts should go one step smaller. If I press Ctrl++ they should go one step larger.

Does this happen every time?


Other information:
Comment 1 Reinout van Schouwen 2008-03-31 16:42:01 UTC 
What back-end are you using (xulrunner, firefox, webkit..)? 
Can you reproduce the problem in Firefox?
Comment 2 Sam Morris 2008-04-07 11:59:50 UTC 
I'm using the xulrunner backend. I can resize fonts just fine in Iceweasel (firefox).
Comment 3 Sam Morris 2008-04-07 12:49:12 UTC 
Another site with this property: http://openid.net/
Comment 4 Reinout van Schouwen 2008-04-07 12:59:00 UTC 
Confirming this (in 2.20, at least). Interesting...
Comment 5 alp 2008-06-01 11:14:24 UTC 
Moving to Backend:Mozilla. Works fine with the WebKit backend.
Comment 6 Sam Morris 2010-03-19 12:14:54 UTC 
gecko backend is dead