Vasco --
On my PC your right-justified text looks OK when using the default settings in IE 8 or Firefox 3.6.13 under Windows XP. However, your symptoms can be induced with the following settings, which may explain why your site looked different on another PC.
1. In Windows "Settings\Control panel\Display\Settings\Advanced", if I set the DPI setting to something larger than Normal-100% (say 120%) and then reboot, your right-justified text looks ragged in either IE 8 or Firefox. In IE 8 I can fix this by checking "Tools\Compatibility". This can be made permanent by checking "Tools\Compatibility view settings\Display all websites in compatibility view". (You may also see a compatibility button that looks like a torn sheet of paper at the top of IE just to the left of the green refresh arrows.) I don't know of any such work-around for Firefox.
See comments on the following page (IE8: Compatibility View Settings - set for all sites):
http://www.craigbailey.net/ie8-compatib … all-sites/
Here, Craig Bailey suggests the following fix:
"Yes, you just need to add the following line into the head section of your html:
[meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=EmulateIE7" /]
but replace ?[' with '< ' and ']? with ?>?
Unfortunately this comment was deleting the code line if I had the angle tags included."
Please let me know if it works or if modifications are needed.
The following page (Introducing Compatibility View) is also interesting:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2008 … -view.aspx
The following comment may be relevant:
"IE8b2 passes Acid 2 (
http://www.webstandards.org/files/acid2/test.html#top). Default padding/margins for elements is not defined in the CSS spec, and are assigned by browser manufacturers - this may account for differences you are seeing."
2. Assuming that the DPI is normal (96 dpi) then your ragged text can still occur if you zoom in ("View\Zoom") with either browser.
Is it possible to right-justify your text within a transparent table?
Don Culp