Hi Micke, On 2015-04-23 05:35, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: > On Wed, 22 Apr 2015, Henrik Levkowetz wrote: > >> Here's a strawman using @media queries: >> >> http://zin.tools.ietf.org/pt/draft-ietf-idr-error-handling-19-responsive.html >> >> Comments on this one are very welcome. > > My wish is that the font size will be the same on my desktop browser as > the one it will choose for displaying a .txt file in the browser. That way > I will get identical text size for RFCs regardless if I look at a txt > version or html version. Understood. On my desktop machine, in Safari, the font size for the link above is exactly the same as for https://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-ietf-idr-error-handling-19.txt The fact that this seems not to be the case for you is inevitable, I guess, given all the possible combinations of browser and platform in play. The reason why I want to go to a point size instead of the previous setting is to avoid the gradual display size change which has taken place for the '1em' setting over the 10 years since I first set up the service. I'd be happier to have the font size experience stay relatively constant over time, and I believe that the likelihood of achieving that is greater with 'absolute length units', in w3c's vocabulary (http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/syndata.html#value-def-length). I could be wrong about that, of course. > Basically, I wish my entire web experience worked like this (which it has > historically) bit it's getting destroyed by a trend by web sites to go for > larger and larger fonts, which I guess is driven by the same goal that you > had, ie for things to look better on tablets and phones. Understood. And for what it's worth, I'm also bothered by overly large fonts on many recently designed websites. > But if I have to choose, then I much prefer the responsive version over > the 12pt version. Responsive is either very similar to txt or one font > size bigger than txt, and it works reasonably well on all devices. 12pt is > just way too big. Ack. I'll wait to see if there seems to be consensus on the current responsive version, or if it needs further tweaks, then I'll start converting pages to use that instead of the 12pt version. Henrik