Comments on: Shrinking text in bloglines?

Question: Shrinking text in bloglines?

callmejay — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 06:31:32 -0800

Why does the text to a particular feed get smaller and smaller in bloglines? It looks like a vision test, where each paragraph is smaller than the previous one. Can I do anything about this?

The feed in question is http://OneDrunktoAnother.blogspot.com/atom.xml

It happens for no other feed.

By: gleuschk

gleuschk — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 06:38:04 -0800

Because the feed is chock-full of lines like:
<span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;color:#666600;"/>
without closing </span>s. There's one after every paragraph, which makes each iteration 85% smaller than the previous.

By: smackfu

smackfu — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 06:50:34 -0800

Actually, the ones that end in /> are self terminated and thus pointless (though they really should have a space before the slash to be correct).

But the issue is probably related. Bloglines is probably screwing up the end span tags, so you just 85% of 85% of 85% of... etc. Note that the feed works fine if you view the XML directly in Firefox.

By: Geektronica

Geektronica — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 19:34:27 -0800

Uh, you can't self-terminate a SPAN tag. It requires a separate closer, because it makes no sense without one. So gleuschk is right.