The font and image sizes change based on (www. or not)

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kc64 Reply #1, 17 years, 11 months ago

This is a new and weird problem to me. If I browse to www.mydomain.com and compare the rendered page to browsing to mydomain.com (without) the ""www.", the page renders larger with "www." I viewed the source on both and compared the text. The only diffs are:

<link rel="SHORTCUT ICON" href="http://www.mydomain.com/favicon.ico" />
--------------------------8<------------------------------------
<link rel="SHORTCUT ICON" href="http://mydomain.com/favicon.ico" />

and:

    <!--[if lte IE 6]>
    <a class="sub" href="http://www.mydomain.com/" title="">Home
    <table><tr><td>
--------------------------8<------------------------------------
    <!--[if lte IE 6]>
    <a class="sub" href="http://mydomain.com/" title="">Home
    <table><tr><td>

in a Wayfinder output.

I’m using FF 3.0.4 on Vista.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
kc64

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Everett Reply #2, 17 years, 11 months ago

That is odd. Have you cleared your browser cache and cookies? I’m wondering if you have a viewing preference set that is associated with www.mydomain.com; the same text size preference may not be associated with the "mydomain.com" name.

That’s the easiest explanation I can think of. Maybe try viewing the 2 variations on a completely fresh machine and see if you can verify.

You could add a rewrite rule to your .htaccess file to enforce all "mydomain.com" to roll over to "www.mydomain.com"... something like this:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} .
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.mydomain\.com [NC]
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.mydomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

Even if it is a simple browser preference thing, putting in the rewrite rule will keep your pages all using the same url.
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