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From: Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de>
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Subject: Re: Strecthed Fonts Was: Re: allow blocked content
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Andrew Poulos, 2012-01-26 21:54:

> On 26/01/2012 3:17 PM, Michael Haufe (TNO) wrote:
>> On Jan 25, 9:49 pm, Andrew Poulos<ap_p...@hotmail.com>  wrote:
>>>
>>> With a HTA and a HTM having the same HTML 4 Strict doctype elements are
>>> displaying in the same on-screen position in the HTA and in IE. One odd
>>> thing I've just noticed is that a line of text is longer in IE.
>>>
>>> I did screen captures and compared the two and it looks like IE has
>>> "stretched" the spacing between the letters and/or the letters
>>> themselves ever so slightly.
>>>
>>> The only thing the HTA has that the HTM doesn't is this
>>>
>>> <HTA:APPLICATION
>>>    id="testapp"
>>>    applicationname="Sample"
>>>    icon="content/sample.ico"
>>>    border="thin"
>>>    borderStyle="normal"
>>>    caption="yes"
>>>    contextMenu="no"
>>>    navigable="yes"
>>>    scroll="no"
>>>    selection="no"
>>>    showInTaskbar="yes"
>>>    singleInstance="yes"
>>>    windowState="normal">
>>>
>>> Why would IE stretch fonts (or the HTA compress them)?
>>
>> Mind posting a reduced example I could look at?
> 
> I made a simple example that demonstrates the issue here
> <https://secure.filesanywhere.com/fs/v.aspx?v=8a6e6a8c60636dae9ca5>
> Its a zip that contains a HTA and HTM and a CSS file.

I don't see any "stretching". The lines differ in length, yes - but not
because of "font stretching", but because the text in each line also
differs. There is no difference between opening the ind.htm in IE,
Firefox or as HTA.



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