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To: All; TomGuy; Miss Didi
Gonna rework the font system on beta.

What I did in the recent updates is switch from font tags to using style sheets. But due to poor browser support and poor mapping from font tag to style sheet settings, it's been a nightmare. So I'm going to adapt an approach I've seen on many major sites: using fixed size fonts with an option to scale them up or down. I really hate that, because in an ideal world the browser's text size menu should select the font size, but reality is setting in: current state of the art is broken.

Beta is being updated.

54 posted on 04/14/2008 11:45:52 AM PDT by John Robinson
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To: John Robinson

Whatever it means, it sounds groovy to me! ;)


55 posted on 04/14/2008 11:49:30 AM PDT by Miss Didi ("Good heavens, woman, this is a war not a garden party!" Dr. Meade, Gone with the Wind)
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To: Nevadan

Ping for “Font” update...;)


57 posted on 04/14/2008 12:14:14 PM PDT by Miss Didi ("Good heavens, woman, this is a war not a garden party!" Dr. Meade, Gone with the Wind)
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To: John Robinson

One more thing, could you make sure to save the old FR CSS files, so people like TomGuy can revert back to it using a css extension on firefox?

I’ll volunteer to maintain the CSS file, but I’ll need a copy from prior to the changes as a starting point.


60 posted on 04/14/2008 1:46:56 PM PDT by JerseyHighlander
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