Thanks for your thoughts guys. Just as you have opinions about browsers not setting any widths or specifying fonts, as a designer I get to have the same opinions. If you choose to forcefully override styles on our site in severe ways, the display will probably look a little bit weird on some pages.
Consider my side of this story... should I be testing the site not only in IE7/8/9, Windows/Chrome/Firefox/Safari, OSX/Chrome/Firefox[3,4]/Safari, Ubuntu Firefox/Chrome... and also go through and forcefully override styles in each of these browsers to make sure it works when minimum font-size is 18pt, or someone forces Helvetica all over the site? Luckily for you, the notifications page is one of our oldest and still untouched by the ongoing design refinements of GitHub. I have no idea when, but it will most definitely get redesigned at some point. -- Kyle Neath http://github.com/kneath On Monday, December 20, 2010 at 3:09 AM, Paul Miller wrote: > > > On Dec 20, 1:27 am, Tekkub <tek...@github.com> wrote: > > > When I'm not wearing my contacts I have some pretty poor eyesight > > myself. Why are you tinkering with fonts and css when safari has a > > built in zoom that works quite well? Cmd-+ is a wonderful little > > shortcut. > > > > > > I use the minimum font size in firefox, somewhat smaller at 12pt. I > also override all font choices so I always get Helvetica no matter > what — this gives me an experience rather like elinks, but with > pictures and background colors. I hate zooming (firefox has this > also) because then I can't see the whole page. My minimum font works > on all pages and very rarely causes any trouble. > > I agree with the OP in that the font size (like the browser width) is > completely up to the reader, not the website. Zooming is a workaround > that should say on phones. > > -Paul > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "GitHub" group. > To post to this group, send email to git...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > github+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/github?hl=en. > > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GitHub" group. To post to this group, send email to git...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to github+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/github?hl=en.
