Re: Making pt a non-physical unit

On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 12:30 PM, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu> wrote:

> On 1/7/10 5:57 PM, David Singer wrote:
>
>> It's pretty minor.  It's just that a designed 24pt font face is not the
>> same as the 12pt face drawn twice as large.  If the user asks for general
>> zoom in, they should get the 12pt face drawn larger.  (Smaller faces tend to
>> have larger 'holes' in them, and be a little 'fatter', for readability).
>>
>
> I think this might be a philosophical difference but we (Gecko developers)
> feel pretty strongly that in this situation we should in fact use the 24pt
> font face instead of just upscaling the 12pt one, precisely because of the
> readability issue.
>

Right. If you're going to change the layout anyway, because of the change in
the effective window width, why not use the more readable font face?

Rob
-- 
"He was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities;
the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are
healed. We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to his
own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all." [Isaiah
53:5-6]