I just updated Surfari and Mefi has gone all big on me

February 12, 2003 9:28 PM

I just updated Surfari and Mefi has gone all big on me. The first beta meant adjusting to a smaller font for Mefi when compared to IE; now the two are identical in appearance. I miss that slimming look but a change to my user settings on Mefi has no effect nor does a change to Safari's preferences. Should I just move my chair back?
posted by Dick Paris to Bugs at 9:28 PM (10 comments total)

I should add that so far it is the only site I visit regularly that is changed. Including nothing, and lots of it.
posted by Dick Paris at 9:43 PM on February 12, 2003

How many browsers are there now? Like, a thousand? And they all seem to show pages differently. I say a line must be drawn.
posted by Hildago at 10:18 PM on February 12, 2003

I draw the line between there being a space after a browser's version number, and there being a "b" there.
posted by Su at 10:29 PM on February 12, 2003

Sweet! That means that it really worked and they fixed the bug I found.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 10:46 PM on February 12, 2003

aw crap, correction, it's only partially fixed. The default-sized ticketstubs.org is still unreadable.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 10:48 PM on February 12, 2003

It's cool, Hildago. I'm not asking for anything. Just wanted to have a) an understanding (expecting the change to match IE was actually a correction) and b) wondering why I can not control the default size through the custom settings.

I bring it up because Mr. Owie cares.
posted by Dick Paris at 3:39 AM on February 13, 2003

Funny... I just changed my options on the "Customize" page, and voilá, smaller type.

Mac OS 10.2.3 and the new Safari beta.

Go figure.
posted by jpburns at 5:50 AM on February 13, 2003

I had heard that the next public beta release of Safari would change from 72 dpi to 96 dpi.

But Safari no longer does that DHTML title attribute thang; it was working on the earlier (v51) build, but the new (v60) build sticks the title tags in the status bar. It does this with all title tags (for example, on my own site), and seems to override what Matt is doing.
posted by mcwetboy at 6:07 AM on February 13, 2003

JP, I just tried again and had success this time. Abandoning Verdana maybe did the trick? I don't know but thanks for making me check again. All is well.

Nothing more to see here. Move along now.
posted by Dick Paris at 7:03 AM on February 13, 2003

that is odd, mcwetboy... it never did the DHTML tags for me, in v51 or v60....

Werid...
posted by Steve_at_Linnwood at 9:43 AM on February 13, 2003