Huge fixed-width fonts on web mailing list archive

Emily Boyd soc-emily at freebsd.org
Fri Nov 4 16:40:52 PST 2005


Hi,

>>For the moment I just commented out the font-size on
>>global.css, this should please many persons.
> 
> It does, if you ask me.  If anyone has sample screenshots that
> clearly show why this size is too small, I'd be very interested
> to see them, please.

Try Firefox (or any Mozilla-based browser) on Windows:

http://www.emilyboyd.com/design/freebsd/pre_firefox_win.png

Or Safari:

http://www.emilyboyd.com/design/freebsd/pre_safari_mac.png

As I said, it's now unreadable.

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.

Emily


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