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› March 19, 2002
New Font Settings
I know that reading a site's blathering on about it's own development can get a bit tiring, but since we've had two threads (1, 2) going on about how to best deal with font sizing, I thought I'd mention the latest experiment. I've switched the sizing over to percentages. The body tag gets font size of 80% and line height of 120%, and the h's get 100%. Is it perfect - nope, but I'm hoping that fewer browser setups will default to unreadable, and all will allow text zooming. I'm also thinking that an alternate "large print" css version should be available, and will work on that in the near future.
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1. March 19, 2002 10:54 PM
2. March 19, 2002 11:11 PM
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Nate Posted…
whops, more problems noted.. ie win starts wrapping the nav, and some subpages start wrapping too.3. March 20, 2002 02:34 AM
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francois Posted…
First look (WinIE6) seems fine.4. March 20, 2002 01:12 PM
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dvg Posted…
looks great on win2k/ie6; much better than the original (pre-2 weeks ago?); very happy with the redesign (sorry I can't give any constructive critique)5. March 20, 2002 02:02 PM
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evan Posted…
moz 0.9.9/win2k looks great! the tiny-type was just too tiny before. keep up the good work.6. March 21, 2002 04:15 AM
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heyotwell Posted…
Thanks, that tiny font size was a little too tiny for me on Mac IE5.1. It's much easier to read now.7. March 21, 2002 03:29 PM
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Dougal Campbell Posted…
Still unstyled in Win IE5.5 :-/ What percentage of your readership is that, Nate?8. March 21, 2002 03:47 PM
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Nate Posted…
(just added up the numbers) oh jeez, alot of folks are viewing this with a win Ie under 6. And given that the highpass wasn't filtering omniweb anyways, I just switched back to the ol' import method.9. March 22, 2002 09:21 AM
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Dougal Campbell Posted…
Aaaaah, much better :)10. March 25, 2002 01:12 AM
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Check it and see if it works for you. I'd be interested in any comments or feedback on the results.
Donimo Posted…
I am experimenting with a (radical) new method of font specification. It's called let the user decide.Check it and see if it works for you. I'd be interested in any comments or feedback on the results.
11. June 3, 2002 09:03 AM
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Nate Posted…
FYI - from tests, it seems that the following effects have resulted - none of which are bad enough to encourage alteration: