Per my post yesterday A note about WUWT fonts, readability, etc I’m going to try turning off the Google ads for a few hours. Those that have had font display issues, please advise if this cures the problem. Then I will know what to report to wordpress.com technical support. – Anthony
UPDATE: as of 4PM PST I’ve turned ads back on – those who reported problem cleared up when ads were off, please advise if the problem returns – Anthony
UPDATE2: 6PM PST OK Google ads are the problem, thanks to everyone who provided feedback. I’ve advised wordpress.com tech support. In the meantime the simple solutions you can do are:
- Run Internet Explorer in “compatibility mode”
- Use FireFox or Chrome, which are superior (and free) browsers
I chucked IE long ago, and I advise everyone to do the same.
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All fine, back to normal.
I have lost the list of the latest comments. Also sometimes the most recent post did not show up in Recent Posts but did show up as an “arrow” at the top of the last post.
I had no problems with the type face before this.
Fine here too
I was having the problem too, but this seems to have fixed it.
MAVukcevic says:
All fine, back to normal.
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same for me
Saw a very small font yesterday but good now!
Unless you get a worthwhile income from google ads, zap them and pay wordpress not to have any ads at all on the blog. I did that, and my readership likes the uncluttered, non-commercial feel of the place.
Just my 2c
Fonts look fine.
I have not had the font problem since you turned off google ads …
OK here with Firefox 10.0.2, IE8, Palemoon 3.6.30 AND IETab within Firefox (which wasn’t displaying the comments properly before).
Oooops – I’ve just noticed that my Java installation is v6, Update 29 which is now out of date…
Worked for my Android for the first time in a few days
Google ads are pulled in using Javascript and the script used sometimes interferes with other scripts so there might be some interaction there, especially with what people above are saying.
Also, many people run one or another version of ad/script blocking software. This can also cause page display issues.
As far as the money… this site consumes a lot of your time and effort. I think you should be able to get a bit of compensation for that. Once upon a time you commented about running the occasional article pointing to your weather widgets. That seems like a good idea to me.
Seems to work. I have 2 browsers on the same XP SP3 machine (2GB RAM)
Firefox 10.0.2, this was never a problem either way.
IE6 (yes, the ancient one) had the font problem before you switched off the Google ads and there was no way I could adjust the font size in the browser. Ctrl+ didn’t work, View Text Size had no effect, Ctrl-mouse scroll didn’t work, no View Zoom option.
After the switch-off I can’t see the font issue in IE6, although the page doesn’t look nearly as good as in Firefox. However I found a way to adjust the font sizes
In IE6, go to Tools -> Internet Options
In the “General” tab, click the “Accessibility…” button.
Check the “Ignore font sizes specified on Web Pages” option and press OK
Finally OK the main dialog.
Now I can switch between font sizes in IE6 using either View Text Size or Ctrl-mouse scroll.
Still, I’d much rather use Firefox… so that’s what I will do.
Back to normal!
FWIW, count me among those who have never had a single issue, w/ or w/o Googleads.
I use Opera. I have had no problems before, and none now.
I’m having no font troubles on my old XP machine, one thing I have noticed of late is a slow/hanging when returning to WUWT after visiting a link from the sidebar.
IE, I’ll visit say JoNova from your sidebar, when I hit the back button to return to WUWT there can be a 15-45 second delay before I am back to the exact page position that I left on WUWT,
Hi,
ie8 all back to normal now.
I had the font problems but going over to IE8 compatibility view seemed to fix it, mostly.
As I post this I now get no problems with fonts whether compatibility view is turned on or off.
Can we comment that the page loads appear faster? Even Tips & Notes? (That was a joke – Anthony reset it yesterday.)
I didn’t have the problem before (ancient Linux system and a version of Firefox so old I’m not going to admit what it is), I don’t think I’ve seen any report from a Firefox user it was a problem.
The problem would come and go with me so I assumed it was my fault and updated firefox and IE but to no avail.
Seems OK now.
This seems to have solved the problem. Didn’t get the strange font anymore.
IE8 in Windows 7 and all back to normal.
Please keep it this way.
I never had a font problem, but noticed the “WATTS UP WITH THAT” and the Theme info became an overlaid pane as shown here: http://i41.tinypic.com/ta6ie1.jpg , only on the main page which would load several articles and stop, with no arrow to older posts. Now I still have no arrow to older posts, but the main page seems to load all pages of posts if I keep scrolling down, and does not stop even though the overlay remains. This does not occur on the comments pages, nor on other WordPress blogs. I am running Firefox 10.0.2 on XP SP3 with 2Gb RAM.
I have xp pro, ie 8 and had the problem, switched to firefox when the issues started happening, so just now i have fired up ie 8 again, and it doesn’t seem to be an issue now.