Old style has a default size of "12px" while new style has a default size of "small". Since my choice of default font is 14 pixels, I think those two definitions amount to the same thing, which is why I can't see any difference.
Although I can see that having the default size be "small" is a bit naughty, if you have your browser font set to 12px then you probably have better eyes than I. ;-) Mozilla's default seems to be 16, and in today's environment with high resolution screens you would expect people to prefer the fonts larger rather than smaller (which would mean the new LJ font got proportionately bigger while the old one stayed the same).
A slight curiosity is that with my browser set to 14px, the very small text on the page you mention is smaller in the old style than in the new style, while the rest of the text is the same size.
Are you sure you don't have Mozilla's "minimum font size" option set? I do as part of an exercise in suppressing what people fondly suppose is Web design.
I am very much looking forward to the "read all comments pages in the same style" option making it out of testing, to put an end to eye-bleedingly vile S2 comments styles.
[Actually it is more awkward that they are all different. I'd settle for almost any vile S2 style if they were all in the _same_ vile style.]
Are you sure you don't have Mozilla's "minimum font size" option set?
It is set, but it doesn't seem to make much difference to anything.
What appears to be causing the size anomaly is that when the style sheet sets the default to 12px the <font size=1> is interpreted relative to that, but when the style sheet sets the default to "small" the <font size=1> is interpreted relative to my default (which is 14px).
This is Netscape 7 which, for all I know, could be horribly broken (well, I do know from bugzilla that there have been reams of bugs fixed).
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Date: 2003-09-05 06:42 am (UTC)http://www.livejournal.com/community/pubquiz/48132.html?thread=309764
In the old style the second half of the comment is obviously in small print, in the new style that distinction is lost.
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Date: 2003-09-05 07:24 am (UTC)Old style has a default size of "12px" while new style has a default size of "small". Since my choice of default font is 14 pixels, I think those two definitions amount to the same thing, which is why I can't see any difference.
Although I can see that having the default size be "small" is a bit naughty, if you have your browser font set to 12px then you probably have better eyes than I. ;-) Mozilla's default seems to be 16, and in today's environment with high resolution screens you would expect people to prefer the fonts larger rather than smaller (which would mean the new LJ font got proportionately bigger while the old one stayed the same).
A slight curiosity is that with my browser set to 14px, the very small text on the page you mention is smaller in the old style than in the new style, while the rest of the text is the same size.
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Date: 2003-09-08 06:54 pm (UTC)I am very much looking forward to the "read all comments pages in the same style" option making it out of testing, to put an end to eye-bleedingly vile S2 comments styles.
[Actually it is more awkward that they are all different. I'd settle for almost any vile S2 style if they were all in the _same_ vile style.]
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Date: 2003-09-09 08:14 am (UTC)It is set, but it doesn't seem to make much difference to anything.
What appears to be causing the size anomaly is that when the style sheet sets the default to 12px the <font size=1> is interpreted relative to that, but when the style sheet sets the default to "small" the <font size=1> is interpreted relative to my default (which is 14px).
This is Netscape 7 which, for all I know, could be horribly broken (well, I do know from bugzilla that there have been reams of bugs fixed).