From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 27789 invoked by alias); 8 Feb 2012 02:12:25 -0000 Received: (qmail 27769 invoked by uid 22791); 8 Feb 2012 02:12:23 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.8 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from localhost (HELO sourceware.org) (127.0.0.1) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 08 Feb 2012 02:12:10 +0000 From: "vincent-srcware at vinc17 dot net" To: glibc-bugs@sources.redhat.com Subject: [Bug admin|web|git/11934] web pages: small fonts in CSS Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2012 02:12:00 -0000 X-Bugzilla-Reason: CC X-Bugzilla-Type: changed X-Bugzilla-Watch-Reason: None X-Bugzilla-Product: glibc X-Bugzilla-Component: admin|web|git X-Bugzilla-Keywords: X-Bugzilla-Severity: normal X-Bugzilla-Who: vincent-srcware at vinc17 dot net X-Bugzilla-Status: RESOLVED X-Bugzilla-Priority: P2 X-Bugzilla-Assigned-To: carlos at systemhalted dot org X-Bugzilla-Target-Milestone: --- X-Bugzilla-Changed-Fields: Message-ID: In-Reply-To: References: X-Bugzilla-URL: http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/ Auto-Submitted: auto-generated Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 Mailing-List: contact glibc-bugs-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: glibc-bugs-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2012-02/txt/msg00043.txt.bz2 http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3D11934 --- Comment #2 from Vincent Lef=C3=A8vre 2012-02-08 02:11:29 UTC --- (In reply to comment #1) > The currently website uses `px' to specify exact font sizes in relation t= o the > page layout. We expect users to use browsers scaling support or assistive > technology to make the page view bigger. Well, it would be very annoying to have to scale the page each time one goe= s to a new site, because each site hardcodes the font size in inconsistent ways. Moreover not all browsers are able to easily enlarge the page without reformatting it (so that one doesn't have to do a horizontal scroll after reading each line). See Nokia's browser for the N900, for instance. > Using `px' and scaling makes the page > *much* more readable than using "em" and font size changes. The latter can > suffer from improper layout and difficult to read enlarged text, while the > former results in a uniformly scaled website that is easy to scroll and r= ead. This is plainly wrong. The "em" (or percentage if you prefer) is a relative font size, so that if you scale the font, every font should be scaled in the same proportion. > We don't plan to change this any time soon, but if you still have problems > reading the page I'd be more than happy to work with you on the problem e= .g. > configuring your browser or other technology. Actually the current settings now appear to be OK (at least consistent with= my default choices). --=20 Configure bugmail: http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/userprefs.cgi?tab=3Demail ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.