FIX: FONTS too large in the Joomla-SMF bridge when using internet explorer

[guilliam]

QUESTION: my smf forum, smg integration or bridge with joomla; the fonts are very huge when viewing in internet explorer(i.e.).. how can i make it the average size just as the same in viewing the page via firefox?


REFERENCE URLS:
http://forum.joomla.org/index.php/topic,25562.0.html
http://forum.joomla.org/index.php/topic,11161.0.html
http://forum.joomla.org/index.php/topic,11273.0.html
http://www.technoadvice.com/advanced/de ... mbo/3.html
http://www.simplemachines.org/community ... ic=21938.0
http://www.simplemachines.org/community ... ic=37469.0
http://www.simplemachines.org/community ... ic=27806.0





QUICK SOLUTION:

considering "classic" is the name of the template you are using.

step ONE:

open your SMF index in: /Themes/classic/index.template.php

somewhere on line 43:

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	$settings['doctype'] = 'xhtml';

change to:

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	$settings['doctype'] = 'html';

save or upload the modified index.template.php to your server/host

step TWO:

open /Themes/default/fonts-compat.css

change the font sizes into exact px.. meaning lets say:

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	font-size: x-small;

into

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	font-size: 12px;

then

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	font-size: xx-small;

into

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	font-size: 10px;

then

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	font-size: medium;

into

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	font-size: 14px;

searched the SMF forums, joomlahacks, and joomla forums and didnt seen this step(editing /Themes/default/fonts-compat.css)

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smf font huge large too big in i.e. internet explorer looks fine in firefox