On Wed, 26 Jul 2017, Ted Lemon wrote:
You are fortunate to have such good eyesight. For my eyes, the new
fonts are a huge improvement. The fonts on the old IETF web site are
legible, but really too small, and the information density is too high,
so that it requires a close look to sort out what one needs from among
the things one doesn't.
Yes, I have good eyesight. I set my default appearence that is comfortable
for me. I expect all applications and web sites to follow that. If I had
worse eye sight, I would set the default so the text was rendered in
larger font size on my screen.
Screenshot from my screen:
http://imgur.com/a/iJCLV
This is with the CSS scaling turned off, so it's rendered with default
font size. The old IETF website is approximately in between the font size
of the "about mac" window text, and the MacOS menu text. The new
beta.ietf.org web site is significantly larger in font size and row
spacing compared to the other windows.
It's not the work of web site developers to cater for people with bad
eyesight, it's the job of operating system developers to give people the
possibility to set default settings that fit each and every one, and then
it's up to the browser to give the user the default font size that user
has chosen. If some web sites start to increase the web site "because
there might be some people with bad eyesight out there who have chosen
small font sizes in their OS", this is going to be a race with increasing
font sizes in absurdum.
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Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike@xxxxxxxxx