+1 That's a problem of web designers being too young and not having spent time in print where typography is taught and adhered to. I have to use reading glasses to browse the web these days. <sigh>
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 3:41 AM, Rex <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > This message is intended to initiate a discussion about the default > font size of Chromium. > > As the precision of the display technology being improved, the trend > of the computer users facing their display more than 8 hours feeling > eye irritation is becoming common, and I am one of them. > > By analyzing the major cause of my eye irritation, I found that I can > configure the default font size of most of my applications easily, > like text editor, compiler, MS-DOS console,... However, whenever I > want to check some data on the internet, the first font size are > usually very small. For reason of emergency to read the critical data > on the Web, I did not adjust each web page's font size properly before > starting to read the web page. Very quickly, my eyes get irritated > during the reading. If lots of web pages are to be read in a day, my > eyes will end of red before the end of the day. > > The worst case is when I am reading the web pages with Chinese > characters. They are much too small in general sense. Some English > web pages are also designed with very small fonts. > > When the LCD display's resolution is becoming large size, this > improvement does not help for the above issue. It is very common that > 1/4 of the web page is left empty while the used 3/4 web page are full > of characters of tiny fonts. > > My proposals are as the following: > > (1) Have a switch in the Chromium configuration that will zoom up the > web page to 4/3 as it is designed. > > (2) Redefine the displayed size of all fonts in Chromium with a > factor. For example, when the user set the factor to be 1.3, the > character of font size 8 will be displayed as if its font size is 8 x > 1.3 = 10.4. > > Hope there will be some echo. > > Rex > > > > > > > -- Cheers, Steve http://www.linkedin.com/in/torontostephenallen http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home Sent from Toronto, Ontario, Canada --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Discussion mailing list: [email protected] View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-discuss -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
