Hi,

I use an imac with MacOSX Leopard and Safari 4 beta to access the web. For a while, I thought that some fonts of the NITRC pages appear to be too large for my taste. I tried an option of Safari that allows the texts to be zoomed out, which made the page look a lot more elegant. That leads me to wonder if the problem is a matter of operating dependency. To check that, I tried another feature of Safari 4 beta -- change the user agent reported to web servers. Interesting, after I switched to Firefox/windows, the page seem to be displayed in a way that I believe it is designed to look like. Below I have attached a couple of screen captures. Can somebody see why this is happening?

Thanks very much.

Gary Hui Zhang

Fixed by recent release.

I'll be happy to. Look forward to the update.

We're planning a redesign of the front page of the site and will have a better look at font sizes at that time. We're planning some usability studies as part of this redesign; would you be willing to give us some feedback when that time comes?

I've opened an internal ticket to discuss this. In the mean time, I'd be interested to hear from other users; please use this space or e-mail moderator@nitrc.org.

I see. Any chance you can use the smaller rendering font for both safari versions. I don't know what most people feel about this. When I looked at the attached screenshots attached below side-by-side, I found the one for Windows is much more elegant and eye pleasing than the one for Mac.

Much of it is historical; certainly earlier versions of IE required this hack for rendering consistency. We still indicate slightly smaller fonts for Windows users, which seems to do the trick for the most part (but will of course show up in a self-consistent browser like Safari!).

Why is that?

The CSS sent back with the page is dependent to some extent on the operating system and the browser; we instruct IE and windows to use a slightly smaller font than other platforms and browsers.

Two additional screen captures