https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25257
Matthew Brush <mbr...@codebrainz.ca> changed:
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--- Comment #15 from Matthew Brush <mbr...@codebrainz.ca> 2012-07-04 00:40:11
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As a developer myself[1] I hate to be whiny user and put a "me too" comment,
but this font bug makes Wikipedia nearly unusable (without zooming in of
course) in OSX/Safari. In Linux/Firefox, the font size is too small but still
legible without zooming in. I've no clue about Windows/IE since I don't have
those available to test.
If I understand correctly, as the bug title suggests, it's a bad idea to
specify an em size less than 1 because 1.0em means the size of the font that
the user has set (or is default) in their browser. As mentioned in the previous
comments, this a well known problem such that people are starting to make
browser extensions and user scripts to fix it themselves. There's a massive
list of (almost exclusively negative) user feedback about it here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:User_experience_feedback/font_size
For the record, I'm on a 13" Macbook Air with OSX 10.7, Safari Version 5.1.6
(7534.56.5), Standard Font is set to "Geneva 14"[2]. My screen resolution is
1440x900.
I've pushed a screenshot of what I see when I visit Wikipedia here:
https://github.com/codebrainz/misc/raw/master/screenshots/wikipedia-screenshot.png
This seemed like an appropriate bug report to comment on, but let me know if
there's a better one or if I should create a new report or if there's a
Wikipedia-specific bug tracker I missed.
[1] Not a web developer FWIW
[2] I can't remember if I changed the default font but Wikipedia is the only
site I can remember where it's not perfectly legible, and it'd be a shame to
have to set it bigger and zoom out on every other website except Wikipedia.
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