Huge fixed-width fonts on web mailing list archive

[Marc Fonvieille]

On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 02:39:32AM +1100, Emily Boyd wrote:
> >
> >Deleting the font-size line should be enough.
> >
> >I think there is no reason to increase pre's
> >font size above the default.
> 
> There is actually a reason for that line.
> 
> Without that compensation, pre text ends up tiny on the majority of
> browsers/platforms (try it and see :)
> 
> It sounds as though the Firefox default configuration under FreeBSD is
> changing the size of pre. I'll have to see if there's a workaround;
> simply removing the line will fix Firefox on FreeBSD, but then there'll
> be a worse issue with the text being unreadable on most
> browsers/platforms. I'll look into this further.
>

I'm not really into CSS, but this sounds weird to me.  I mean if Mozilla
and Firefox have issues on this point, it's not new cause everything
under http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/ use the same CSS
layout (docbook.css) which does not define any font size, and people
hardly complained about it.
Well, under FreeBSD I always set a minimum size and the size for
proportional and monospace fonts.  I have Zeldman's book[1], I should
read it regarding this font issue.

For the moment I just commented out the font-size on global.css, this
should please many persons.

Marc

[1] Designing with Web Standards, ISBN: 0735712018