Just registering my agreement on this. It would be great to be able to make the text in individual HTML messages bigger.
> On Aug 18, 2019, at 7:17 PM, leo <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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... > > > -- > Bill Cole > [email protected] or [email protected] > (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) > _______________________________________________ > mailmate mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.freron.com/listinfo/mailmate >
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