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Squinting at Your Browser
Dave and I are about the same age. Maybe that’s why his post wishing for per-site text-size options in browsers struck a nerve. We’re both at the point where small type just looks like too much work. The answer seems to be the minimum font size option in Firefox. Set it in preferences under Content -> Fonts & Colors -> Advanced. Following Dave’s lead, I set it to 13 and life is better.
Posted by windley on April 5, 2007 9:52 AM
Comment from Blake Snow at April 5, 2007 11:15 AM
The use of small fonts (intended for lengthy reading) on websites is very poor usability. Sadly, archaic web designers still plague the internets.
Comment from Eric Norman at April 5, 2007 1:54 PM
Safari also has a minimum font size setting. It's at Preferences > Advanced. It also has a tool you can install in the address bar that you can use to make text larger/smaller; I like that even more. Find it at View > Customize Address Bar...
Comment from Craig at April 6, 2007 6:50 AM
I've tried changing my default font, minimum font, etc, but something always breaks. Like now as I type this after hitting Ctrl-+ in Firefox the comment text area underflows the right column.
Until we scrap CSS for truely relational vector based design layouts, we're stuck with this crap.
A greasemonkey script could probably do what he asks per-site, per-section basis. Thats probably the best bet.
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