I really hope that there is a digital reading glasses or something like that designed in all the Browsers. Rex
2009/4/23 S D Allen <[email protected]> > +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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
