Hi Micke,
On 2015-04-23 05:35, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
On Wed, 22 Apr 2015, Henrik Levkowetz wrote:
Here's a strawman using @media queries:
http://zin.tools.ietf.org/pt/draft-ietf-idr-error-handling-19-responsive.html
Comments on this one are very welcome.
My wish is that the font size will be the same on my desktop browser as
the one it will choose for displaying a .txt file in the browser. That way
I will get identical text size for RFCs regardless if I look at a txt
version or html version.
Understood. On my desktop machine, in Safari, the font size for the link
above is exactly the same as for
https://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-ietf-idr-error-handling-19.txt
The fact that this seems not to be the case for you is inevitable, I guess,
given all the possible combinations of browser and platform in play.
The reason why I want to go to a point size instead of the previous setting
is to avoid the gradual display size change which has taken place for the '1em'
setting over the 10 years since I first set up the service. I'd be happier to
have the font size experience stay relatively constant over time, and I believe
that the likelihood of achieving that is greater with 'absolute length units',
in w3c's vocabulary (http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/syndata.html#value-def-length).
I could be wrong about that, of course.
Basically, I wish my entire web experience worked like this (which it has
historically) bit it's getting destroyed by a trend by web sites to go for
larger and larger fonts, which I guess is driven by the same goal that you
had, ie for things to look better on tablets and phones.
Understood. And for what it's worth, I'm also bothered by overly large fonts
on many recently designed websites.
But if I have to choose, then I much prefer the responsive version over
the 12pt version. Responsive is either very similar to txt or one font
size bigger than txt, and it works reasonably well on all devices. 12pt is
just way too big.
Ack. I'll wait to see if there seems to be consensus on the current responsive
version, or if it needs further tweaks, then I'll start converting pages to use
that instead of the 12pt version.
Henrik