Re: comments on newly generated html draft format and font sizes

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Hi Andy,

On 2015-04-23 13:39, Andrew G. Malis wrote:
> On both my Macbook Pro 13" using Chrome and my iPhone 6 using Safari,
> "responsive" looks the best, on the phobe it leaves a small margin on the
> right. Of the others, on the laptop, 10 looks the best, and on my iPhone, 9
> leaves a bit of a larger margin on the right, but is the most readable
> because 10, 11, and 12 all look identical, taking the text right up to the
> right edge of the screen.

Ok, good.  Thanks!

	Henrik

> Cheers,
> Andy
> 
> On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 1:09 AM, Henrik Levkowetz <henrik@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> 
>> Hi Joel,
>>
>> On 2015-04-22 18:06, Henrik Levkowetz wrote:
>>> Hi Joel,
>>>
>>>> On 22 Apr 2015, at 17:49, Joel M. Halpern <jmh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I have to agree that 12pt produces too large a default.  Is there an
>> easy way for me as a user to experiment with what 10pt would look like, so
>> I can comment on that?  And is there an easy way for me to try that size on
>> my phone, to see if it seems equally readable there?
>>>
>>> I'll set up a bunch of sample pages for you to try out.
>>
>> Here are links to pages set up with 9pt, 10pt, 11pt and 12pt:
>>
>>         https://tools.ietf.org/pt/
>>
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>>         Henrik
>>
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>>
>>>     Henrik
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Joel
>>>>
>>>>> On 4/22/15 11:42 AM, Paul Wouters wrote:
>>>>>> On Wed, 22 Apr 2015, Henrik Levkowetz wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ???  You obviously believe that a font size of '1em' or 'medium' is
>>>>>> semantically
>>>>>> more correct than '12pt'.  Can you back that up?  The CSS 2.1
>>>>>> specification
>>>>>> is very clear about the semantic meaning of point sizes, see Section
>>>>>> 4.3.2 of
>>>>>> the CSS 2.1 specifcaiton.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> If you don't want to use "1em", please consider "medium", which tells
>>>>>>> the browser to use the default size it believes is best based on
>>>>>>> defaults and configuration by the user.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> That's funny.  'medium' is the default setting, which is what you get
>>>>>> with
>>>>>> 1em.  Hilarious :-D
>>>>>
>>>>> Today I thought my browser on my laptop had a bug in it, because it
>>>>> displayed the draft using insanely big letters and I had to hit ctrl
>> "-"
>>>>> to bring the size down to something reasonable. Then I noticed this
>>>>> thread :P
>>>>>
>>>>> Paul
>>>>
>>>
>>
>>
> 





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