On Tue, 11 Jul 2006, L. David Baron wrote: > > For Gecko 1.9, I'd like to try to make the font size preferences > meaningful.
See my proposal from several years ago: http://hixie.ch/specs/css/font-size-ui/font-size-ui Basically it integrates font size scaling with the page zoom, and does away with the "font size pref" (setting it to 16px for all fonts). > * we enforce that preference by making scaling all pages so that the > 25th (roughly) percentile sized text on a page is sized to be at > least as large as the preference (bug 31961). This should be > implemented at a pretty low level (e.g., text frames, perhaps after > checking visibility). I would imagine this would cause all kinds of strange effects. e.g. consider what it would do to a page that only contained only a flash image and its copyright, in small text. (Interestingly, the suggestion I made above actually would even handle pages with no text at all.) > * To handle separate language-group and fixed-vs.-proportional > font size preferences, what we actually do is (instead of > accumulating the actual font sizes and comparing to the preference at > the end) accumulate actual-to-preferred ratios and look at the > appropriate percentile of those ratios. I would recommend doing away with this altogether, at the very least doing away with the monospace-vs-proportional nonsense. I've been browsing the Web with all my fonts set to 16px for years and it looks fine. > * How often do we want to resize during incremental loading? Never (or once, but before you paint anything). -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.' _______________________________________________ dev-tech-layout mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-layout
