Huge fixed-width fonts on web mailing list archive

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On 2005-11-05 12:06, Marc Fonvieille <blackend at 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.