Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2005 17:14:26 +0100 From: Fabian Keil <freebsd-listen@fabiankeil.de> To: Emily Boyd <soc-emily@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-www@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Huge fixed-width fonts on web mailing list archive Message-ID: <20051104171426.46db1b50@localhost> In-Reply-To: <436B80B4.6080107@freebsd.org> References: <200511030125.jA31PLrJ023110@bright.research.att.com> <20051104103619.GB602@gothic.blackend.org> <20051104124921.01f8d98d@localhost> <436B80B4.6080107@freebsd.org>
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Emily Boyd <soc-emily@freebsd.org> wrote:
> >>Maybe Emily could look at this problem.
> >=20
> > The problem seems to be caused by global.css:
> >=20
> > pre {
> > font-family: monospace;
> > font-size: 1.4em;
> > }
> >=20
> > Deleting the font-size line should be enough.
> >=20
> > I think there is no reason to increase pre's
> > font size above the default.
>=20
> There is actually a reason for that line.
>=20
> Without that compensation, pre text ends up tiny on the majority of
> browsers/platforms (try it and see :)
That's because the default font-size already is much to small
in the first place.
If the style sheets wouldn't set the font size below 100% there
would be no problem.
=20
> It sounds as though the Firefox default configuration under FreeBSD is
> changing the size of pre. I'll have to see if there's a workaround;
Firefox allows the user to limit, how small the font size can be set.
My minimum font size is 14px, therefore annoyances like "font-size:
69%;" can't render the page unreadable.
> simply removing the line will fix Firefox on FreeBSD, but then
> there'll be a worse issue with the text being unreadable on most
> browsers/platforms. I'll look into this further.
As far as I can see, nearly unreadable font sizes already
are the default.
IE displays the font much too small, but if I try, I can
still read the content. I don't see a big difference
between the usual font size and the <pre> font size.
On Beonex the <pre> font size now is even smaller
than before, but who is still using Beonex anyway.
A clean work around would be to stop setting
the font size below 100%. Everything else means
working on the symptoms.
Fabian
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