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Readability

February 13th, 2003 · 2 Comments

I know you’ve not tested your template in various browsers, machines, monitors, and so forth.

For the record, I’m using Mozilla 1.2b or so. On a small monitor, Win98, 64 megs of RAM on a Pentium 1, only 166 mhz, ancient, steam-powered, machine. Most of which is irrelevant to finding your font size completely unreadably small ant tracks. Switching Mozilla up to boosting text to 150% does work, though.

Just offering a datapoint.

Thanks for blogging.

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2 responses so far ↓

  • 1 Gary Farber // Feb 13, 2003 at 7:25 pm

    Oops. Forgot to mention that the flaw of your current format, when blown up to 150% on my set up, is that your entries are then only two to three words long per line. This is readable, but not, to be sure, preferable.

  • 2 Betsy Devine // Feb 15, 2003 at 8:41 am

    Okay, here’s what I think the problem was–my built-in style sheet sets the font-size to 10px.

    Removing the font-size tag altogether is tempting, but it probably then breaks the page in a bunch of other people’s browsers.

    As an interim step, I re-set it to 12px. HTH!

    Betsy