Vladimir Panteleev wrote: > On Sat, 03 Jul 2010 12:33:10 +0300, Jérôme M. Berger <jeber...@free.fr> > wrote: > >>> Now, what's everyone complaining about font sizes? Except for the >>> citation block, the font size looks pretty much the same to me on all >>> screenshots (except on Firefox 2.x, where they're slightly smaller - >>> you're not using that obsolete browser, are you?). >>> >> The problem is that font sizes are a personal preference. The main >> text of the page should be left at the default in order to pick the >> size from the user settings. > > Uhm, maybe my experience in web applications hasn't taught me much, but > AFAIK that's not how browsers work. Instead of having a "default" font > value, browsers allow scaling all fonts (or, alternatively, all content > including images and plugins) by a user-set coefficient. I suppose you > could edit the default browser stylesheet to set a "default" font size, > but that would cause inconsistent behavior at best (and will probably > break the layout on some websites as well). > Actually, browsers do both. For example in Firefox, you can go to Edit->Preferences->Content on Linux (or Tools->Preferences->Contents on Windows) and you have a pair of fields called "Default Font" and "Default Font Size" which allow setting a default font. Browsers have had this feature since I started using the web in 96. Since a lot of web sites force their own fonts, browsers have added more recently the ability to zoom on a page (and for some browsers, you can even remember the zoom level on a page-by-page basis). But this zoom function is mostly a hack to work around poorly designed web sites.
Jerome -- mailto:jeber...@free.fr http://jeberger.free.fr Jabber: jeber...@jabber.fr
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