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To: Miss Didi

The last 2 weeks, I have modified the browser, IE Options and Windows desktop fonts 6-8 times, each, trying to get the fonts as close to the old format (i.e., readable) as I could.

Then, something would change and the fonts would all be out-of-whack — either too huge to read or too tiny to read.

I’d go through the setting again, trying to get them readable. Yesterday morning was the latest adjustment.

It is getting frustrating — to the point of being ridiculous to have to reset and tweak my whole computer font system every day just to read one website.


51 posted on 04/14/2008 11:12:44 AM PDT by TomGuy
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To: All; TomGuy; Miss Didi
Gonna rework the font system on beta.

What I did in the recent updates is switch from font tags to using style sheets. But due to poor browser support and poor mapping from font tag to style sheet settings, it's been a nightmare. So I'm going to adapt an approach I've seen on many major sites: using fixed size fonts with an option to scale them up or down. I really hate that, because in an ideal world the browser's text size menu should select the font size, but reality is setting in: current state of the art is broken.

Beta is being updated.

54 posted on 04/14/2008 11:45:52 AM PDT by John Robinson
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