The two sutblties you mention are correct. But I disgree with your
assesment that it is not unraseable to leave html as is. Even browsers
can change the overall size of standard HTML!
It would be ***very*** helpful for people with *slightly* deteriorating
eye-sight to be able to nudge up the font sizes in an email without
resorting to underlying accessibility features of the OS.
Leo
On 19 Aug 2019, at 5:07, Bill Cole wrote:
On 18 Aug 2019, at 13:42, Roger Bohn wrote:
I have been trying and asking for years. It is possible to change
fonts of metadata like subject and the interface. But I have not
found a way to enlarge the text itself. With my eyes, that is a major
annoyance.
The command-key and menu commands somehow work for me, given 2
subtleties:
1. The body area is active, i.e. it's the last region clicked.
2. The body is not a rendering of an HTML part that specifies a font
size.
#2 is not an unreasonable design choice. There's no universal need to
specify font size in HTML. It is perfectly reasonable and common in
mail software to compose HTML mail without an explicit font size, as
MailMate does when generating HTML, so when an HTML message does
specify a font size it is a sign that the font size is important and
should be honored.
That makes rational sense, although it is not compatible with how some
composers of HTML behave. Unfortunately, messages with overspecified
HTML also tend to have inadequate plain text alternative parts or none
at all, so while "Prefs->Viewer->Message View->Prefer plain text" will
usually make it possible to adjust font size. as a practical matter
that is likely to be inadequate. Hopefully at some point Benny will
replicate what Safari does to zoom text to have mercy on old guys like
me...
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Bill Cole
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