Akkana wrote:
> Michael writes:
>
>>Hi all
>>I have been keeping an eye on Mozilla since M16 and even more so since
>>0.6. My question might seem silly to some but that's life I say :-)
>>
>>My question is this, is there a plan to be able to select a font size
>>rather than the up and down arrow that is currently in 0.9.2 composer
>>
>
> You can do that now from the menus. Format|Size|x-large or whatever.
Tried that, I cant seem to get the font size big enough. It just stops
short. I might need xxx - large :-). tell me if that is avaiable,
because I cant find it ?
>
>
>>and previous versions of Moz for that matter ? I ask this because
>>dumbies like me like to see numbers rather than count how many times I
>>have clicked on the up or down font size arrow.
>>
>
> If you're talking about numbers for point size: those numbesr are a
> bad idea in html because they do completely different things on
> different platforms. What your system shows you as 10pt, my system
> might show me twice as big or twice as small. (Ask any Mac or Linux
> user about all the unreadable web pages due to people who designed on
> Windows and made the point sizes wrong for other platforms.)
>
> Since the point of html is usually to communicate information to
> others (either on a web page or via email), the Mozilla editor is set
> up so that the sizes will be standard html sizes and will be readable
> by the person on the other end, regardless of what platform or browser
> that person is using.
>
Point taken :-)
Thanks
Michael
> ...Akkana
>
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