Thanks for the reply. It isn't that big of a deal, of course, and I am thankful the rest of the site works fine with it. I'll still look forward to any eventual redesigns of the Notifications page, though.
On Dec 20, 10:35 am, Kyle Neath <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for your thoughts guys. Just as you have opinions about browsers not > setting any widths or specifying fonts, as a designer I get to have the same > opinions. If you choose to forcefully override styles on our site in severe > ways, the display will probably look a little bit weird on some pages. > > Consider my side of this story... should I be testing the site not only in > IE7/8/9, Windows/Chrome/Firefox/Safari, OSX/Chrome/Firefox[3,4]/Safari, > Ubuntu Firefox/Chrome... and also go through and forcefully override styles > in each of these browsers to make sure it works when minimum font-size is > 18pt, or someone forces Helvetica all over the site? > > Luckily for you, the notifications page is one of our oldest and still > untouched by the ongoing design refinements of GitHub. I have no idea when, > but it will most definitely get redesigned at some point. > > -- > Kyle Neathhttp://github.com/kneath > > > > On Monday, December 20, 2010 at 3:09 AM, Paul Miller wrote: > > > On Dec 20, 1:27 am, Tekkub <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > When I'm not wearing my contacts I have some pretty poor eyesight > > > myself. Why are you tinkering with fonts and css when safari has a > > > built in zoom that works quite well? Cmd-+ is a wonderful little > > > shortcut. > > > I use the minimum font size in firefox, somewhat smaller at 12pt. I > > also override all font choices so I always get Helvetica no matter > > what — this gives me an experience rather like elinks, but with > > pictures and background colors. I hate zooming (firefox has this > > also) because then I can't see the whole page. My minimum font works > > on all pages and very rarely causes any trouble. > > > I agree with the OP in that the font size (like the browser width) is > > completely up to the reader, not the website. Zooming is a workaround > > that should say on phones. > > > -Paul > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "GitHub" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]. > > For more options, visit this group > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/github?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GitHub" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/github?hl=en.
