Huge fixed-width fonts on web mailing list archive

Marc Fonvieille blackend at freebsd.org
Fri Nov 4 07:51:25 PST 2005


On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 05:18:08PM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> On 2005-11-04 15:54, Marc Fonvieille <blackend at freebsd.org> wrote:
> >On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 04:49:21PM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> >>> Hmmm I think <tt></tt> should deserve the same treatment :)
> >>
> >> Yes.  There's no reason why typewriter or preformatted text would
> >> have a gratuitous size increase.  I'm not sure why it was there
> >> in the first place, but it's ok to remove it
> >
> > Maybe it was there to "emphasis" some commands and such.
> > As example look at http://www.freebsd.org/platforms/ppc.html#issues
>

Sorry the mentioned page uses <pre></pre>, a right example would be
http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq2.html where we have things like
<tt># pkg_add -r gnome2</tt> etc.

> We can use <strong> or even colors when emphasis is needed (I'd prefer
> <strong>, because it also works for people with color-seeing
> disabilities).  It's not necessary to play around with the font size.
> 
> I'm _extremely_ picky about font size issues.  Neither bigger than my
> preferred size in the browser settings, nor smaller, is a good thing
> in my opinion.
> 
[...]

I'm picky too.
I just did some test on http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq2.html
with

tt {
}

instead of

tt {
	font-family: monospace;
	font-size: 1.4em;
}

This seems far better and closer to what we have in docs/
Tell me what you think about it (you may want to use the Web developer
extention with Moz or Firefox).

Marc


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