Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2005 14:50:04 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Marc Fonvieille <blackend@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-www@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Huge fixed-width fonts on web mailing list archive Message-ID: <20051105125003.GA1219@flame.pc> In-Reply-To: <20051105110612.GB600@gothic.blackend.org> References: <200511030125.jA31PLrJ023110@bright.research.att.com> <20051104103619.GB602@gothic.blackend.org> <20051104124921.01f8d98d@localhost> <436B80B4.6080107@freebsd.org> <20051104173806.GK602@gothic.blackend.org> <20051104232616.GB2289@flame.pc> <436BFF8D.1050502@freebsd.org> <20051105014541.GA15904@flame.pc> <20051105110612.GB600@gothic.blackend.org>
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On 2005-11-05 12:06, Marc Fonvieille <blackend@freebsd.org> wrote: >On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 03:45:41AM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >[...] >> > Until we can work out the proper fix, I would recommend putting it back >> > to how it was; having larger (but perfectly readable) fonts in some >> > browsers is far better than having tiny fonts in others. >> >> I don't really like putting it back, but if you insist then it may be >> the only choise we have. >> >> This is a catch-22. If we put it back, then X11 browsers will show >> garbage. If we don't put it back, Windows browsers will show garbage. > > People can click on "Text Size: Large" at the top of the page > to get a "proper rendering" for the moment. This is better > than get back to "crazy HUGE" font for non-windows/OS X users. > >> There are perfectly good web pages that don't break because >> the browser happens to have a default point size of 12 pt, so >> either way (putting it back or not) we _really_ have to track >> down why it happens and fix the real bug and not the >> symptoms. > > As I said in another mail, our doc/ uses a lot of <pre></pre> > without this issue (or at least with readable small fonts). This is mostly why I think the small size in Windows is a bug of the current CSS layout that is unrelated to using <pre> or other HTML elements to mark preformatted text.
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