Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2005 18:38:06 +0100 From: Marc Fonvieille <blackend@freebsd.org> 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: <20051104173806.GK602@gothic.blackend.org> 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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On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 02:39:32AM +1100, Emily Boyd wrote: > > > >Deleting the font-size line should be enough. > > > >I think there is no reason to increase pre's > >font size above the default. > > There is actually a reason for that line. > > Without that compensation, pre text ends up tiny on the majority of > browsers/platforms (try it and see :) > > 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; > 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. > I'm not really into CSS, but this sounds weird to me. I mean if Mozilla and Firefox have issues on this point, it's not new cause everything under http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/ use the same CSS layout (docbook.css) which does not define any font size, and people hardly complained about it. Well, under FreeBSD I always set a minimum size and the size for proportional and monospace fonts. I have Zeldman's book[1], I should read it regarding this font issue. For the moment I just commented out the font-size on global.css, this should please many persons. Marc [1] Designing with Web Standards, ISBN: 0735712018
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