#246: fedora.css sets a universal scaling factor of 76%, which is much too small ---------------------------+------------------------ Reporter: adamwill | Owner: webmaster Type: defect | Status: new Priority: major | Milestone: Component: General | Resolution: Keywords: css font size | Blocked By: Blocking: | ---------------------------+------------------------ Comment (by mrmazda): I think you got it right in comment 0 Adam. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=141361 is probably where I started bringing it up in a formal Fedora context, back when you were still with Mandrake. I filed https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=974780 too, which was wontfixed, plus https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=638726 that remains open. 12px is only 9pt if the display density is in fact 96 DPI. On a 133 DPI laptop (17" 1920x1200), 12px shrinks to 6.5pt. Back before that 2005 article referenced, in 2003, in http://www.w3.org/2003/07/30-font-size the standards body responsible for CSS, W3C, published "Do not specify the font-size in pt, or other absolute length units." According to http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css-values/#absolute- lengths the px unit is an absolute unit, the unit used to set the base size on body (and elsewhere) in https://fedorahosted.org/fedora- websites/chrome/common/css/trac.css used on this very trac page. The same 2003 doc also says "Avoid sizes in em smaller than 1em for text body". Yet, fedora.css is setting a smaller than 1em ''base'' size, based upon the 1em size inherited from HTML, which gets its size from the visitor's browser default size. Lest any reader here be unaware, the 76% "size" set in fedora.css is a nominal size only. Real size is a function of area, which is what any size seen by a human on a web page sees. That 76% nominal size actually works out to the square of 76%, or 57.76%, not a whole lot bigger than half size, as http://fm.no-ip.com/Auth/area76.html demonstrates. Styling like in fedora.css and trac.css is little different from that used by the vast majority of web sites. That it is the case that it amounts to a standard practice doesn't justify it. It's rude. It countermands every personal computing device's innate ability to obey the needs of its user as established by personalizable font size settings in whatever application(s) present a Fedora web page for viewing and use. -- Ticket URL: <https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-websites/ticket/246#comment:2> fedora-websites <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Websites> Fedora Website Team's Trac instance -- websites mailing list websites@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/websites