Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2005 01:26:16 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org> To: Marc Fonvieille <blackend@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-www@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Huge fixed-width fonts on web mailing list archive Message-ID: <20051104232616.GB2289@flame.pc> In-Reply-To: <20051104173806.GK602@gothic.blackend.org> References: <200511030125.jA31PLrJ023110@bright.research.att.com> <20051104103619.GB602@gothic.blackend.org> <20051104124921.01f8d98d@localhost> <436B80B4.6080107@freebsd.org> <20051104173806.GK602@gothic.blackend.org>
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On 2005-11-04 18:38, Marc Fonvieille <blackend@freebsd.org> wrote: > 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 :) Emily, I honestly appreciate all the time & work you've put into the new web site. I for one believe that it looks amazing and we can built on top of it, creating a superb web site for FreeBSD. I'm not sure I understand what the 'majority of browsers' is here. I *did* try it on IE 6.X on Windows 2000 at work, on Firefox and Mozilla on FreeBSD at my laptop and Firefox running in an Ubuntu Live CD-ROM. The size of <pre> and <tt> elements was consistently larger than the surrounding 'running text', making it stand out in a very clear but annoying way. Web style is probably not my strength, but the screenshots Marc posted up-thread show exactly why this looked slightly ugly. > For the moment I just commented out the font-size on > global.css, this should please many persons. It does, if you ask me. If anyone has sample screenshots that clearly show why this size is too small, I'd be very interested to see them, please. - Giorgos
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