Last modified: 2013-07-25 23:11:08 UTC
Created attachment 12615 [details] Screenshot See the screenshot; it appears in Monobook on enwiki and mediawiki.org as of the latest release. Kiiinda a problem. (the other interstitials there - review your changes/save page - are also shrunk).
Timo, what have you wrought?! ;-)
This is due to Monobook's "interesting" way of resetting the font-size to a consistent value cross-browser. It sets the <body> font-size to x-small, and then turn it back up to regular size with "font-size: 127%;" from their globalWrapper div. Due to this odd construct, any new elements attached to the <body> have an exceptionally small font size. Short of hardcoding a larger font-size for the overlay wrappers in Monobook or appending to #globalWrapper in monobook (which might cause others bugs due to not being in the <body> directly) - short of that this is a tough one to get right. Ideally core would fix this in Monobook by using the same font-size technique used by Vector. In Monobook's author's defence (Gabriel), the browsers we had to support when Monobook was being developed made it quite difficult to do right so this was probably the best way to do it at the time – but we no longer need to worry about IE5.5, IE4-for-Mac, Opera<7 etc.
You could add a CSS rule that uses the same technique for the dialog. Setting a simple relative font size (0.7em or something like that) makes it impossible to set the browser's default size to something sensible, as 0.7 * something sensible is usually too small. The non-linear nature of keyword scaling gives a good compromise between honoring a browser's font size and providing sane defaults despite 16px browser defaults. So if there are other JS-free solutions to this issue these days then that would be great.
*** Bug 51034 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 51315 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Can I suggest that the title of this bug is changed to something more meaningful? If the words "edit summary" were included there would probably be fewer duplicatates reported.
(In reply to comment #6) > Can I suggest that the title of this bug is changed to something more > meaningful? If the words "edit summary" were included there would probably > be fewer duplicatates reported. Done.
Created attachment 12915 [details] Review changes popup The review changes popup also has the same sizing issues... My eyes strain so hard trying to read the lines!
Change 75814 had a related patch set uploaded by Esanders: Fix font size for overlays in Monobook https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/75814
I'd add that even on en.wp Monobook is used by many (at least if I read correctly http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_reports/User_preferences#Skin ). I had quite a few complaints about this now at it.wp, so it would really great if we managed to fix this ASAP. Thanks! (confl. by Gerrit: fixed now?)
Change 75814 merged by jenkins-bot: Fix font size for overlays in Monobook https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/75814
Now fixed in master and will be deployed in a few minutes' time.
