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Cuneiformist
The Imperfectionist

USA
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Posted - 07/10/2006 :  09:23:28  Show Profile Send Cuneiformist a Private Message
I saw that this question was addressed in the last chat, but what's going on with the quote function? It seems that after I close the quote, my subsequent comments still appear in the smaller font.

I generally use Firefox (v 1.5.0.4), and perhaps it's a browser problem, but I wanted to ask if I'm the only one seeing this.

Dave W.
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Posted - 07/10/2006 :  13:36:48   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit Dave W.'s Homepage Send Dave W. a Private Message
It seems to be related to Mozilla-based browsers (I've never seen it happen with Internet Explorer), and it seems to be related to quotes within quotes.

I, for one, would appreciate links to example posts in which the problem occurs, along with browser information.

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Cuneiformist
The Imperfectionist

USA
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Posted - 07/10/2006 :  16:03:44   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send Cuneiformist a Private Message
That seems to be the case. As for links, try this. The first post, by furshur is all small. The next one, but Michael, is normal until he quotes a quote-- then the rest of the post is small. And so on.

As for browser info, I generally use my own machine which, as I noted above, runs Firefox. In the Help, About section, I got this:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060508 Firefox/1.5.0.4
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Ricky
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USA
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Posted - 07/10/2006 :  16:37:50   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Send Ricky an AOL message Send Ricky a Private Message
How about just use this topic as a testing grounds?

quote:

1
quote:

2


3


4

quote:

5



6

quote:

7
quote:

8


9



10

Why continue? Because we must. Because we have the call. Because it is nobler to fight for rationality without winning than to give up in the face of continued defeats. Because whatever true progress humanity makes is through the rationality of the occasional individual and because any one individual we may win for the cause may do more for humanity than a hundred thousand who hug their superstitions to their breast.
- Isaac Asimov
Edited by - Ricky on 07/10/2006 16:39:27
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Ricky
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Posted - 07/10/2006 :  16:40:25   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Send Ricky an AOL message Send Ricky a Private Message
In Firefox, every single line appears as the quote size text, small. In IE, 4, 6, and 10 all appear as the correct size.

Why continue? Because we must. Because we have the call. Because it is nobler to fight for rationality without winning than to give up in the face of continued defeats. Because whatever true progress humanity makes is through the rationality of the occasional individual and because any one individual we may win for the cause may do more for humanity than a hundred thousand who hug their superstitions to their breast.
- Isaac Asimov
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Cuneiformist
The Imperfectionist

USA
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Posted - 07/10/2006 :  17:16:09   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send Cuneiformist a Private Message
quote:
Originally posted by Ricky

In Firefox, every single line appears as the quote size text, small. In IE, 4, 6, and 10 all appear as the correct size.



I'll second Ricky's observation, at least as far as Firfox is concerned...
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Kil
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USA
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Posted - 07/10/2006 :  17:46:11   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit Kil's Homepage  Send Kil an AOL message  Send Kil a Yahoo! Message Send Kil a Private Message
Camino too, which is also Mozzila based...

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JohnOAS
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Posted - 07/10/2006 :  18:38:28   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit JohnOAS's Homepage Send JohnOAS a Private Message
Single level quotes:
quote:
Level1


This text should be (and I'm suspecting is, for everyone) "normal".

Quoted quotes:
quote:
Level1
quote:
Level2




This text should be normal, but won't be for Mozilla based browsers. Am I psychic or what? OK, what.

It would seem that using some extra tags correctly doesn't correct the problem. All text between the nested quotes and the end of the post remains small.


How about after that, no?

What about after this?


No?
Or after this?

Too bad. I suppose that the "size" tag could be used, assuming there's a size value that is equivalent to "normal" post text, but it's a bit of a kludge.

Does this look "normal" to everyone? (it's at [size=2])

John's just this guy, you know.
Edited by - JohnOAS on 07/10/2006 19:37:30
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Kil
Evil Skeptic

USA
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Posted - 07/10/2006 :  19:42:40   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit Kil's Homepage  Send Kil an AOL message  Send Kil a Yahoo! Message Send Kil a Private Message
quote:
Does this look "normal" to everyone? (it's at [size=2])

Yeah, that one looks normal using Camino.

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Dave W.
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Posted - 07/10/2006 :  20:20:23   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit Dave W.'s Homepage Send Dave W. a Private Message
Let's just check nested font sizes:
size=1
Back to normal (1)
size=2
Back to normal (2)
size=3
Back to normal (3)
size=1 with size=3 inside the size=1 tags and back to size=1
Back to normal (4)
this is size=2 for legibility, but does anyone with Mozilla see screwed up stuff, and where is it?
Back to normal (5)

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Dave W.
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Posted - 07/10/2006 :  20:21:32   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit Dave W.'s Homepage Send Dave W. a Private Message
This is normal (1)
This is red
This is normal (2)
This is blue
This is normal (3)
This is red with blue inside and back to red
This is normal (4)

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Dave W.
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Posted - 07/10/2006 :  20:22:30   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit Dave W.'s Homepage Send Dave W. a Private Message
For people who see the font size problem, does the text go back to normal at the start of the next post on the same page?

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H. Humbert
SFN Die Hard

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Posted - 07/10/2006 :  20:33:19   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send H. Humbert a Private Message
Not sure if this has anything to do with anything, but sometimes when posting my font size would appear really tiny. I'd open the post to see what's going on, see nothing, then resave it and the text would magically fix itself. Other times I could just refresh the screen and the font would "pop" back to normal size. This may not always work, however.


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Kil
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Posted - 07/10/2006 :  22:07:17   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit Kil's Homepage  Send Kil an AOL message  Send Kil a Yahoo! Message Send Kil a Private Message
quote:
Originally posted by Dave W.

For people who see the font size problem, does the text go back to normal at the start of the next post on the same page?

Yes.

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Why not question something for a change?

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Siberia
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Posted - 07/11/2006 :  06:11:37   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit Siberia's Homepage  Send Siberia an AOL message  Send Siberia a Yahoo! Message Send Siberia a Private Message
Mmm, Ricky's multiple quotes look normal to me, and I'm on Firefox.

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Ricky
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Posted - 07/11/2006 :  06:51:36   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Send Ricky an AOL message Send Ricky a Private Message
No problems with your two posts on Firefox, Dave.

Why continue? Because we must. Because we have the call. Because it is nobler to fight for rationality without winning than to give up in the face of continued defeats. Because whatever true progress humanity makes is through the rationality of the occasional individual and because any one individual we may win for the cause may do more for humanity than a hundred thousand who hug their superstitions to their breast.
- Isaac Asimov
Edited by - Ricky on 07/11/2006 06:52:03
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