Font Sizes

[The Man]

Apparently, not all browsers regard font size in the same manner. I viewed EoFF with Internet Explorer 4.5 on my iMac, and all the text was smaller than it should have been in Normal view -- it was like all the text was sized like this. This was annoying, and I've found a potentially easy solution: Replace, or augment, the "font size" tags, which vary from system to system, like so:

<font size=1> could be replaced by <font style="font-size: '10 px';">.
<font size=2> could be replaced by <font style="font-size: '13 px';">.
<font size=3> could be replaced by <font style="font-size: '16 px';">.
<font size=4> could be replaced by <font style="font-size: '18 px';">.

And so on. Any computer that supports Cascading Style Sheets, I believe, will view these just fine, and it'll be universally the same size from computer to computer. I dunno if it seems an appealing thing to change, but it could be cool.

I've also thought of a new tag based on this feature: [csize=LKJDSFLASFnAKHFLKEAJR]aldkjfal;skdjf;wailje[/csize] would yield <font style="font-size: 'LKJDSFLASFnAKHFLKEAJR px';">aldkjfal;skdjf;wailje</font>. Just a thought. Then you could size your text small, like this much more easily than you otherwise might.

Just a couple of thoughts.

Peace
Stuffed Manny

[Killy]

Good idea, but it would be hard to do
*Waits till the admins decide*

[crono_logical]

I say a BIG FAT NO to this

We lose the flexibility of being able to resize the fonts ourselves in the browser when we change resolutions or are feeling like changing the size or whatever. Fixed size text = bad, it forces something onto people which they may all not like. IE let's you quick-resize by scrolling the mouse wheel whilst holding down CTRL. Of course, Macs with their inferior one button mice are incapable of that, but that's another thing



Why didn't you just change the text size in the browser, Manny? Far easier than complaining about it



EDIT: I don't see much use for the other tag you suggested, although it's nice, I doubt it'd get used often and wouldn't be much different from a normal FONT tag anyway.

[Big Ogre Umaro]

wah hahah I didn't know you could do that...*scroll wheel + ctrl weeeee!*

[The Man]

Er, screw that. I guess it doesn't change when you alter the font size on Windows boxes. It works on Macs, though. *dies* Never mind this thread. Someone can close it if they want.

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Stuffed Manny

[Dr Unne]

CSS = bad. That would cripple the MB if you were trying to use Opera or Mozilla, I bet.

[Citizen Bleys]

Mozilla handles CSS fine.

But some of the style stuff IS IE-specific, or at least Micros~1 specific, so it won't work in Linux.

[Shlup]

I guess that's what you get for using an iMac, Manly. *nod*

[Yamaneko]

If font sizes get any smaller I'll end up getting laser eye sergery real soon.

Mac=bad
PC=bad + 1

[The Man]

38BCEE

Originally posted by ShlupQuack I guess that's what you get for using an iMac, Manly. *nod* Actually, Shlup, I was using an iBook when I did the CSS experiments, yet I post on a PC. I just didn't bother to check whether the font sizes changed when you did the wheel-scrolly thing, because I assumed they would, as they did on the PC.

Thankfully, I just remembered the other reason I created this thread, since as it stands right now it's just going to turn into spam: The [list] tag screws up font sizes. When you use it:

• blah
• blah

it puts thing in 12-px Verdana, at least on my computer, and the font size doesn't change under Windoze xP when you use the wheel-scroller. This irks me, and if someone on staff knows how to put a <font size="2">blah</font> tag by default in each of the table's elements, that'd save me the trouble of having to do that myself in each of the lists I create. Plus it'd look better in the lists of everyone who doesn't bother with the tags. *nod*

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Stuffed Manny

[Shlup]

Originally posted by Kilgore Trout
I viewed EoFF with Internet Explorer 4.5 on my iMac

Originally posted by Kilgore Trout
Actually, Shlup, I was using an iBook when I did the CSS experiments

Does it matter?

[Zypher]

It doesn't work for me, but is it really that big a deal? Besides, can't you just use the HTML if it matters that much to you? Or does that not work either?

[The Man]

Okay, I figured out a way to make this work so that it doesn't screw up with the resize tag:

<font style="font-size: 'xx-small';"><font style="font-size: '{insert pixel-height here}0%';">Hi I r text plz</font></font>

Yesh.

Rest assured that I'm not going to continue posting in such a small font -- this is kinda hard to read, I'd imagine. It looked good at 800x600, but... not so good at 1024x768.

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Kilgore Trout

[Dr Unne]

Hard, as in next to impossible, for those of us with 1280x1024.

[The Man]

At any rate, would you be willing to make a [csize={insert pixel-height here}] tag as per the example I gave above? I'd like to use [csize=11], as I'm doing right now, and I'm sure there are other examples where it'd be useful as well. Plus, it'd save on board space. *shrug*

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Kilgore Trout