RainyShadow Posted September 27, 2021 Posted September 27, 2021 (edited) 2 hours ago, LowLander said: @ArcticFoxie testing your build and i see something wrong with fonts for example try this and see: https://off-guardian.org/2021/09/22/30-facts-you-need-to-know-your-covid-cribsheet/ Maybe try NOT blocking webfonts on that page? And reset zoom to 100% Or, it could be conflicting with your desktop DPI setting somehow. Edited September 27, 2021 by RainyShadow
NotHereToPlayGames Posted September 27, 2021 Author Posted September 27, 2021 (edited) 5 hours ago, Dixel said: ... white walls (OMG why?) and 5 LED TVs that's what worries me ... Your comment didn't dawn on me until I returned from lunch break. I own a '50s classic car with white wall tires and also a '60s classic car with white wall tires, do lunch breaks on occasion with a guy in another '50s classic car with white wall tires and another guy in another '60s classic car with white wall tires. But that's not what you meant, you meant the walls IN MY HOUSE -- they are not white walls, they are an eggshell tan that FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY tends to make them look like they are white. But no, I am not one of these people with walls so dark that it looks like the inside of a cave. edit - removed names of cars, I kind of feel "stalked" that people (think they) know the color of my living room walls and "memorize" such trivial tidbits... oh well... Edited September 27, 2021 by ArcticFoxie
NotHereToPlayGames Posted September 27, 2021 Author Posted September 27, 2021 1 hour ago, RainyShadow said: Maybe try NOT blocking webfonts on that page? And reset zoom to 100% Or, it could be conflicting with your desktop DPI setting somehow. I tried that page at 100% zoom, default XP DPI (96), and Incognito Mode (no fonts or js blocked) and both my v11 and Humming Owl's v11 "squished" the font.
RainyShadow Posted September 27, 2021 Posted September 27, 2021 (edited) @ArcticFoxie Are the fonts bad from the first moment the page shows up, or they turn bad during loading? You can throttle the network speed to obsere that better. P.S. got a link for one of those affected builds? Edited September 27, 2021 by RainyShadow
NotHereToPlayGames Posted September 27, 2021 Author Posted September 27, 2021 Good question. "During" loading would tend to indicate a .css issue with transition or tranform types of .css functions - from the best I can tell all of these work fine. I have found several pages that "squish" the font in both mine and Humming Owl's v11. The commonality is that the squished font always (so far) has a .css "font-size" in rem.
NotHereToPlayGames Posted September 27, 2021 Author Posted September 27, 2021 (edited) 36 minutes ago, RainyShadow said: P.S. got a link for one of those affected builds? I'll update the first thread post of this post thread. I've been waiting until I get my v13 caught up with my v11 and v12. But that could be a week or two (remodeling a bathroom, all new drywall, flooring, shower, sink, toilet, vanity, lighting, and exhaust fan - the whole nine yards and doing all the work myself). Edited September 27, 2021 by ArcticFoxie
RainyShadow Posted September 27, 2021 Posted September 27, 2021 (edited) I tested v11 from here under Win10 (because my XP system can't run 360), but i could not replicate the issue. I even tried going through the proxy in my XP just in case it could be some unsupported cypher, still no dice. [edit] OK, your v11-rebuild3-ungoogled did the trick. Edited September 27, 2021 by RainyShadow
NotHereToPlayGames Posted September 27, 2021 Author Posted September 27, 2021 Humming Owl now has an experimental version (with assistance from @we3fan) of v9.5 and v11 that targets XP x86 SP2 -- have you tried either of those to see if they will run on your XP system?
RainyShadow Posted September 27, 2021 Posted September 27, 2021 (edited) 36 minutes ago, ArcticFoxie said: v9.5 and v11 that targets XP x86 SP2 Even 360EE_9.5.0.138 needs SSE2, it won't start here. Anyways... What i noticed about your v11 is that even the browser UI has different fonts. Did you change anything font/language related in the settings or in chrome://flags ? 1 hour ago, ArcticFoxie said: The commonality is that the squished font always (so far) has a .css "font-size" in rem. After a quick comparison, i didn't notice any difference in the shown style attributes between good and bad builds. For now i think it is something about the font renderer itself... Edited September 27, 2021 by RainyShadow
RainyShadow Posted September 27, 2021 Posted September 27, 2021 @ArcticFoxie Check what happens if you enable the DirectWrite flag. In Win10 this fixed the fonts. It shouldn't matter under XP, but who knows...
NotHereToPlayGames Posted September 27, 2021 Author Posted September 27, 2021 DirectWrite doesn't fix it in XP. Googling around and rem font-size scaling seems to have been a big issue on several Q-and-A forums in 2013/2014. Still reading through several of them, several suggestions cited do not fix the "squish" (but nor did they for several followers of those threads at the time). It seems for most that this was introduced in Chrome 72 and resolved when upgrading to Chrome 73. Even seen some posts where a background gradient causes fonts to "squish".
NotHereToPlayGames Posted September 27, 2021 Author Posted September 27, 2021 Also note that it's only the alegreya font that is being used on that web page that isn't displaying correctly.
RainyShadow Posted September 27, 2021 Posted September 27, 2021 Another way to fix it - switch the engine to IE (the lightning bolt in the address bar) :P
Humming Owl Posted September 28, 2021 Posted September 28, 2021 Maybe this or a similar extension could bypass the issue --> https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/change-webpage-fonts/afelmehoohjbjfpjbadonkcondbilglp
NotHereToPlayGames Posted September 28, 2021 Author Posted September 28, 2021 It can easily be fixed by using Stylus, as far as that goes. An extension I already use, no need to add another @Humming Owl - I get this "font squish" in both of our v11 versions, have you been able to confirn if you get this "font squish" ?
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