Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2005 16:51:09 +0100 From: Marc Fonvieille <blackend@freebsd.org> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> Cc: Bill Fenner <fenner@research.att.com>, freebsd-www@freebsd.org, bsd-unix@comcast.net Subject: Re: Huge fixed-width fonts on web mailing list archive Message-ID: <20051104155109.GJ602@gothic.blackend.org> In-Reply-To: <20051104151808.GB9623@flame.pc> References: <200511030125.jA31PLrJ023110@bright.research.att.com> <20051104103619.GB602@gothic.blackend.org> <20051104124921.01f8d98d@localhost> <20051104135252.GB2362@flame.pc> <20051104142919.GF602@gothic.blackend.org> <20051104143613.GH602@gothic.blackend.org> <20051104144921.GA2928@flame.pc> <20051104145455.GI602@gothic.blackend.org> <20051104151808.GB9623@flame.pc>
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On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 05:18:08PM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2005-11-04 15:54, Marc Fonvieille <blackend@freebsd.org> wrote: > >On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 04:49:21PM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > >>> Hmmm I think <tt></tt> should deserve the same treatment :) > >> > >> Yes. There's no reason why typewriter or preformatted text would > >> have a gratuitous size increase. I'm not sure why it was there > >> in the first place, but it's ok to remove it > > > > Maybe it was there to "emphasis" some commands and such. > > As example look at http://www.freebsd.org/platforms/ppc.html#issues > Sorry the mentioned page uses <pre></pre>, a right example would be http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq2.html where we have things like <tt># pkg_add -r gnome2</tt> etc. > We can use <strong> or even colors when emphasis is needed (I'd prefer > <strong>, because it also works for people with color-seeing > disabilities). It's not necessary to play around with the font size. > > I'm _extremely_ picky about font size issues. Neither bigger than my > preferred size in the browser settings, nor smaller, is a good thing > in my opinion. > [...] I'm picky too. I just did some test on http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq2.html with tt { } instead of tt { font-family: monospace; font-size: 1.4em; } This seems far better and closer to what we have in docs/ Tell me what you think about it (you may want to use the Web developer extention with Moz or Firefox). Marc
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