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j riv
j riv

Reputation: 3699

Is Google Chrome effectively buggy in its handling of desktop DPI?

They appear to assume that "web designers assume a fixed 72DPI" (or something specific anyway). But desktop DPI usually depends on screen physical size.

When I visited this site, I noticed its fonts look tiny compared to other browsers.

After some quick research, I stumbled into Development advisories from Google Chrome that pin point to that issue: they assume DPI is a constant quantity. Is it effectively a bug?

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This thread appears to be rich on the subject: from google.com

Upvotes: 0

Views: 130

Answers (3)

JP19
JP19

Reputation:

Chrome definitely has some display bugs. Many times, HTML checkboxes become invisible (simplest test using gmail). On zooming in/out, they SOMETIMES come back into view. (never faced this issue in IE/FF).

Upvotes: 1

Amy B
Amy B

Reputation: 17977

That site's fonts are small because they have font-size: 70%; and later font-size: 85%;. So now it's down to 69.5% of the original size. The badly written CSS is to blame, not Chrome.

If it bothers you that much, press ctrl+.

Upvotes: 0

Moin Zaman
Moin Zaman

Reputation: 25465

The fonts look the same to me in Chrome and Firefox / Safari / IE

Upvotes: 0

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