- From: Andrew Daviel <andrew@daviel.org>
- Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 00:08:29 -0800 (PST)
- To: <www-talk@w3.org>
It seems I am plagued by unreadably small font on various (mostly commercial) websites. Is it just me, or what ? I'm running Netscape 4.7 on Linux with X11Free86. I have my Western font set to 14pt Times, which is a comfortable reading size that puts maximum information on my screen, for HTML that does not use font tags or scaling. As I understand things this would be <font size=3>, or style "font-size"medium". Many sites seem to be using font size=1 for some normal content - stuff they expect you to read - which is almost unreadable for me. Netscape 4 offers no zoom function (though Netscape 6 does) so I end up doing a copy/paste to a text window (or going to a different site). I would have expected the smallest available font to be used only for copyright notices, footnotes etc. which were not part of the normal content. Is it that browsers on other platforms have an unusually large default font size which noone figures out how to change, or is the scaling between the fonts different? I see somewhere a note that in CSS1, the suggested scaling factor between adjacent indexes was 1.5 and it's been changed to 1.2 in CSS2 -- Andrew Daviel
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