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In the Prefs I specify Verdana 11pt for Headlines, News Items, and Web Pages. This works fine for Headlines and News Items, but does not work on the Web Pages displayed. Instead, I need to spec the Web Pages font size in the Prefs to 14 pt to get the same apparent rendering. This appears reliably across all my feeds, and across other fonts as well; Headlines and News Items are ok, but the Web Sites rendering is a couple of sizes down.
Noticeably, the size-down bug does not apply to all divs in the web pages rendered; for example, in BBC pages the links in the right nav bar are correct at 11pt, but the main text is down.
(I did a search in the bugs db but did not find anything on font sizes)
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| As a web designer I can answer this. The base font size is normally around 16pt, and many web sites prefer to keep their fonts a little below that boundary, but to not set a specific size. Some thusly define their font sizes as 90% or similar, which means that it's easy for you to experience this effect. This isn't a bug in NetNewsWire - what could possibly be fixed would be to note that most common Mac browsers use 16pt as a baseline, and that most web sites shrink this value down to something in between 11 and 14 pt.
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Thanks; I am well aware of all this, and to the degree to which it may have an impact or not -- which it doesn't , in fact: just open the same page in Safari, to see what I mean. Both NNW and Safari use WebKit to render the web pages, and should serve identical page-images.
My original post refers to the preferences offering a value for specifying font sizes for the web pages displayed. This by definition should override the style sheet in the web page. If NNW just serves the style sheet of the web page with no edit capability, the Preferences option is superfluous.
Take a look at the attached screen grab, with the same page displayed by Safari and NNW: heading and nav links identical size, but main text size different.
That's a rendering bug.
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If you have the same preferences for font sizes for Safari and for web pages in NetNewsWire, then the pages should display the same. (Another thing to check is that you haven't chosen Make Text Smaller from the gear menu in NetNewsWire -- that could account for things.)
NetNewsWire just passes the URL to WebKit -- it doesn't do anything to the rendering aside from allow you to specify your preferences.
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Safari is also at Verdana 11pt. None of the apps has a value for smaller/larger text.
Please look again at the attached screen grab: if "make text smaller" or "make text larger" was selected, it would have changed the size of both the main text and the nav bars (as indeed it does, when you do select it).
This behaviour is consistent: even fully validating XHTML sites will display main text columns at smaller sizes.
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