Maharshtratimes.com (or maharashtratimes.indiatimes.com) is a marathi news website using unicode fonts. But it does not display correctly on firefox browser. The problem is because of a single HTML div which uses justified font style. It displays correctly on IE (which is why it is not getting fixed) - this could be because of firefox’s buggy implementation of “align: justify” or that IE simply ignores that style (likely).
Anyway, here is a javascript one liner that you can bookmark and once the page is loaded, click on it to fix your font problem.
Fix Ma. Ta. — Drag this link to your bookmarks.
I tried to create a greasemonkey script to do this automatically, but it’s not working for some reason…
Update: Apparently it *is* a mozilla/firefox bug open for 4+ years. See here and here.
Update2: Here is a greasemonkey script by Saravana Kumar to fix this issue. Caution: you might want to change the included domains carefully (it by default runs on all http and https sites!)
Update3: Here is my greasemonkey script specific for maharashtratimes. Enjoy!
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Pretty precise link! Showed up as first result on my google search for this problem and fixes the Ma. Ta. pages as expected!
Thanks!
Posted 28 Jun 2007 at 2:06 am ¶**Please do not disclose my email address
First of all iam very much thanku you for giving Unicode support on fire fox for marathi site.
I am developing a web site for social cause so please help me to have unicode support on Mozilla on Windows and Linux. Also Give me versions of this Browsers
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Posted 18 Jul 2007 at 9:30 pm ¶Post a Comment