On 11/7/06, Rafael Garcia-Suarez <[email protected]> wrote:
On 07/11/06, Chris Cantrall <[email protected]> wrote:
> What the frell? ... Oh my Dear and Fluffy Lord, the font in Gmail's
> cute little text box is variable-width. And when it's all
> copy'n'pasted to notepad, the carets for both versions line up under
> "urR". Time to beat at Gmail until it displays only fixed width
> fonts, everywhere.
Some google searches with carefully selected keywords will reveal
tricks to hack firefox via a CSS to force fixed width fonts in gmail.
(but this has its share of hate -- you're dependent on any changes
google makes to the css, and you might screw up innocent sites that
use the same class ids)
The above mess is included to demonstrate how broken gmail is
internally. Rafael and I are both using gmail (assuming he's not
POPing to gmail), and the gmail-wrapping of both my first message and
his reply are totally broken in my reply. The above quote is 73
characters, and this text-area is 63 characters wide; that might have
something to do with it.
My short term solution to gmail is to tell Firefox to use a
fixed-width font everywhere. Thanks for the CSS tips, that'll look
much better than Lucida Console everywhere.
--
Chris Cantrall
[email protected]
