Fine. But I can see it. Most archives are virtually inaccessible to me. I
like being able to see it, and regard it as a strength of the archives that
they make it possible.
Lisi
On Wednesday 12 November 2014 23:00:57 Felix Miata wrote:
Lisi Reisz composed on 2014-11-12 17:03 (UTC-0500):
> On
11/08/2014 04:50 PM, Felix Miata wrote:
> >
http://fm.no-ip.com/SS/trinitylistarchive1411.png
I have poor sight, and I find the TDE archives *significantly* better
than most, which I fond unusable. In fact, I can't see a problem. They
are great. Beautifully clear and highly legible when I enlarge (ctrl-+)
which I expect to do anyway. Most archives are awful and I can hardly
read them. I have attached a screenshot of what I see.
What you see, and provided in your attached binary, tells us little, in
contrast to the screenshot URL I provided. In mine, the viewer can see what
the browser's default size is, and what the whole array of DE sizes are, so
that the fonts in the web page can be see in the context of both the
defaults, and the whole rest of the desktop. It could be reproduced by
anyone who wished to, because context is adequate. The only thing it lacks
is actual zoom level applied, which Firefox doesn't offer. The zoom level
in fact is none (100% of the size dictated by page CSS), so the archive
page is in fact displaying the 10px size dictated by the page's CSS.
Your page provides only one context: the UI text in your browser. That
frame of reference indicates you've applied several zoom levels to the
page. Firefox by default remembers zoom levels by domain, so once you've
been there and applied zoom, you shouldn't need to do it again until the
site is restyled to use different sizes. The way the shot cuts off the top
of the page, if negects to show the vast difference in font size between
the "beautifully clear and highly legible" body fonts and the zoomed to
gigantic page title fonts. If you revisit the page in a new browser with a
new profile, or the same browser with a new profile, or reset the zoom
level to none (Ctrl-0), you'll find the resulting fonts not so "beautifully
clear and highly legible", probably to a size smaller than your tiny
Firefox UI menu fonts.
Browser zoom is a *defense* mechanism. Defenses are only needed in the
context of offensive behavior. In the instant case, the offensive behavior
is web page font sizing that *completely* disregards the optimum size
pre-defined via the visitors' browser default size settings. It may be
acceptable to people who only use one computer and one DE to have to ever
apply zoom on any given page or domain, but they shouldn't have to. Those
who use a lot of DEs and a lot of browsers won't have the luxury of having
been to any every frequented page before and having zoom level remembered.
There's no good reason for anyone to have had to apply zoom ever in the
first place. Web pages don't need to be rude, as their creators do have
tools that enable them to embrace user defaults to get the results they
want. The instant case if it remains as it is will remain particularly
perplexing, as the TDE main site CSS is one of the very unfortunately few
places on web where rude styling is not in place, in stark contrast its
mailing list archive.