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Re: Strecthed Fonts Was: Re: allow blocked content

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On 28/01/2012 8:30 PM, Arno Welzel wrote:
> 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.

The different line lengths *is* part of the issue. Using a valid doctype 
and a
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=9">
gets the HTA displaying the text exactly the same as IE 9 does.

Andrew Poulos

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allow blocked content Andrew Poulos <ap_prog@hotmail.com> - 2012-01-24 15:47 +1100
  Re: allow blocked content Martin Honnen <mahotrash@yahoo.de> - 2012-01-24 12:45 +0100
    Re: allow blocked content Andrew Poulos <ap_prog@hotmail.com> - 2012-01-25 07:32 +1100
      Re: allow blocked content "Michael Haufe (TNO)" <tno@thenewobjective.com> - 2012-01-24 15:00 -0800
        Re: allow blocked content Andrew Poulos <ap_prog@hotmail.com> - 2012-01-25 13:56 +1100
          Re: allow blocked content Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-01-25 04:11 +0100
            Re: allow blocked content Andrew Poulos <ap_prog@hotmail.com> - 2012-01-25 15:27 +1100
              Re: allow blocked content Andrew Poulos <ap_prog@hotmail.com> - 2012-01-25 23:08 +1100
                Re: allow blocked content "Michael Haufe (TNO)" <tno@thenewobjective.com> - 2012-01-25 09:23 -0800
                Strecthed Fonts Was: Re: allow blocked content Andrew Poulos <ap_prog@hotmail.com> - 2012-01-26 14:49 +1100
                Re: Strecthed Fonts Was: Re: allow blocked content "Michael Haufe (TNO)" <tno@thenewobjective.com> - 2012-01-25 20:17 -0800
                Re: Strecthed Fonts Was: Re: allow blocked content Andrew Poulos <ap_prog@hotmail.com> - 2012-01-27 07:54 +1100
                Re: Strecthed Fonts Was: Re: allow blocked content Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-01-27 01:31 +0100
                Re: Strecthed Fonts Was: Re: allow blocked content "Michael Haufe (TNO)" <tno@thenewobjective.com> - 2012-01-26 19:46 -0800
                Re: Strecthed Fonts Was: Re: allow blocked content Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-01-27 14:08 +0100
                Re: Strecthed Fonts Was: Re: allow blocked content "Michael Haufe (TNO)" <tno@thenewobjective.com> - 2012-01-27 08:33 -0800
                [OT] On- and off-topic postings (was: Strecthed Fonts) Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-01-27 19:09 +0100
                Re: Strecthed Fonts Was: Re: allow blocked content Dr J R Stockton <reply1204@merlyn.demon.co.uk> - 2012-01-28 18:37 +0000
                Re: Strecthed Fonts Was: Re: allow blocked content "Michael Haufe (TNO)" <tno@thenewobjective.com> - 2012-01-26 16:38 -0800
                Re: Strecthed Fonts Was: Re: allow blocked content Andrew Poulos <ap_prog@hotmail.com> - 2012-01-27 14:19 +1100
                Re: Strecthed Fonts Was: Re: allow blocked content "Michael Haufe (TNO)" <tno@thenewobjective.com> - 2012-01-26 19:43 -0800
                Re: Strecthed Fonts Was: Re: allow blocked content Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2012-01-28 10:30 +0100
                Re: Strecthed Fonts Was: Re: allow blocked content Andrew Poulos <ap_prog@hotmail.com> - 2012-01-29 07:58 +1100
    Re: allow blocked content Dr J R Stockton <reply1204@merlyn.demon.co.uk> - 2012-01-25 19:49 +0000

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