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Posted by Chris F.A. Johnson on 06/25/07 07:04
On 2007-06-25, dorayme wrote:
> In article
><soFai.133048$p47.8870@bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net>,
> "Beauregard T. Shagnasty" <a.nony.mous@example.invalid> wrote:
>
>> Ed Jensen wrote:
>>
>> > I know a lot of people (including myself) that aren't too happy about
>> > the small font sizes that seem so popular on web sites these days.
>>
>> Web developers get younger and younger...
>>
>> > The way I deal with it is by using Firefox and the View -> Text Size
>> > -> Increase feature.
>>
>> Why not just press Control-Plus? Or Control-Minus to decrease, and
>> Control-0 (Zero) to return to your default.
Why should I have to? Doing it properly is no more work than
messing it up.
>> > Increasing the font size one or two steps usually does the job. It
>> > usually also causes the web site to render slightly incorrectly, but
>> > I guess you can't have everything!
>>
>> ..because those developers don't know how to properly define font size.
>
> I was looking at http://alistapart.com/articles/keepingcurrent/
> the other day and became gloomy thinking that there really is no
> hope on this font-size battle. It is lost. Here is a serious
> article on a respected website consciously using small fonts for
> main body text. The deliberateness is announced in no uncertain
> terms. First:
>
> * {margin: 0; padding: 0;}
>
> now that is pretty serious stuff.
It's a start. My style sheets (created by an emacs macro when I
start a new HTML page) begin with:
* {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
border: 0;
}
> Next the plan becomes quite clear:
>
> body {font: 0.8125em Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 1; color:
> #333; background: #FFF;}
The site, alistapart.com/, is one of many that say the right
things, but don't follow their own advice.
> I am getting so tired of upping text on so much. But if I up it
> in prefs, I will be downing it for all the websites which are
> made by authors who refuse to be drawn into this arms race.
Set a minumum font size, then you don't need to keep changing it.
--
Chris F.A. Johnson <http://cfaj.freeshell.org>
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Author:
Shell Scripting Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (2005, Apress)
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