On Tuesday 2006-07-11 22:26 +0000, Ian Hickson wrote: > 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).
This still requires the user to re-adjust for each new broken page. And it also adds the requirement that they re-adjust for pages that use the user's defaults. User requirements for viewing text vary *widely*, depending on the user's eyesight (which tends to vary with age) and the monitor resolution and distance. The user should be able to set a size and actually have it be used. > > * 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.) So the copyright text would be at the user's preferred size for reading text. I don't think that's a big problem. > > * 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. I tend to agree, but the proposal I made for how to handle it makes the two issues unrelated. And I'd rather leave them unrelated. -David -- L. David Baron <URL: http://dbaron.org/ > Technical Lead, Layout & CSS, Mozilla Corporation
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