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Post #1 Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2010 1:14 am 
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It got smaller; it's quite small, actually, and it's light, which makes my aged eyes have to squint to read it... Could it be increased? Maybe not as big as it was before - it was quite big - but somewhere in between?

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Post #2 Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2010 1:24 am 
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In the event that an increase in font size is implemented and you still find it too small or the font size change isn't implemented at all, you can always ⌘-+ to increase the font size (though it increases the font size for everything else as well). If you were already aware of this, hopefully other OS X users will find the tip useful.

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Post #3 Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2010 2:22 am 
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Araban wrote:
In the event that an increase in font size is implemented and you still find it too small or the font size change isn't implemented at all, you can always ⌘-+ to increase the font size (though it increases the font size for everything else as well). If you were already aware of this, hopefully other OS X users will find the tip useful.


Yes, I am aware. And I've done that. It skews the page, though.

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Post #4 Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2010 5:38 am 
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It got smaller? When I made the changes to fix Safari, it got bigger on my screen.

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Post #5 Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2010 7:16 am 
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It got smaller? When I made the changes to fix Safari, it got bigger on my screen.


About half the size here. It was pretty big before; I'd say 16 pt. Now it's tiny, like fonts developers use.

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Post #6 Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2010 7:37 am 
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You're using Safari, right? I've made a change that may help, give it a refresh...

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Post #7 Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2010 8:14 am 
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You're using Safari, right? I've made a change that may help, give it a refresh...


Yes, Safari on Mac.

Here's what I see.


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Post #8 Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2010 8:28 am 
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On firefox, it appears no bigger, maybe smaller. But the spacing is much better.

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Post #9 Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2010 8:47 am 
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Alright, I made another change, please give it a hard-refresh and let me know if that's better. Safari is known to have some strange behaviors with monospace fonts, but this might get around it. If not, I'll have to probably use a browser-detecting hack, which I am loathe to do.

I wish I had a Mac at hand to test this on because debugging web stuff this way is insane.

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Post #10 Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2010 8:51 am 
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fwiffo wrote:
Alright, I made another change, please give it a hard-refresh and let me know if that's better. Safari is known to have some strange behaviors with monospace fonts, but this might get around it. If not, I'll have to probably use a browser-detecting hack, which I am loathe to do.

I wish I had a Mac at hand to test this on because debugging web stuff this way is insane.


Can't you get a Mac virtual machine for whatever OS you're using?

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Post #11 Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2010 9:01 am 
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Alright, I made another change, please give it a hard-refresh and let me know if that's better. Safari is known to have some strange behaviors with monospace fonts, but this might get around it. If not, I'll have to probably use a browser-detecting hack, which I am loathe to do.

I wish I had a Mac at hand to test this on because debugging web stuff this way is insane.


That's better, but why are you using a monospace font? It's ugly.

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Post #12 Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2010 9:11 am 
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That's better, but why are you using a monospace font? It's ugly.

its to solve another problem -- editing diagrams

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Post #13 Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2010 9:18 am 
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That's better, but why are you using a monospace font? It's ugly.

its to solve another problem -- editing diagrams


You mean people don't do diagrams in another program and paste them in their browser for the forum? That's how they must have done on GD.

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Post #14 Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2010 9:38 am 
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You mean people don't do diagrams in another program and paste them in their browser for the forum? That's how they must have done on GD.

I can't really speak for people, but I don't

If new, I copy-paste from another thread and modify

Otherwise, I edit in place a previously submitted post <-- this is really what the fix is in place for, reediting one's own post (or editing a quoted post).

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Post #15 Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2010 10:00 am 
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I always edit diagram code as text. Occasionally I'll do that in vim instead of the browser's text area because it has column selection, but I don't use a go program to make diagrams unless they're extremely complicated. It's usually faster to edit them as text.

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Post #16 Posted: Thu Apr 29, 2010 9:02 am 
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Sometime recently (in the last day or two) the editing window stopped being monospace for me.

I use Firefox 3.6 and have "Allow pages to choose their own fonts, instead of my selections above" unchecked.

I assume something about the text entry field has been changed so that it specifies a font by hand (which my browser ignores) and omits the higher-level specification that it be a monospace font. I'm no HTML expert, so that's as much as I can guess...

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Post #17 Posted: Thu Apr 29, 2010 9:57 am 
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Yes, that's necessary for compatibility with Safari. Apparently Safari absurdly makes text smaller if you specify "monospace". It irritates me that I have to follow a bad practice by not specifying it, but such is the nature of making things cross-browser compatible. Does your system not have any of the alternative monospace fonts I specified?

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Post #18 Posted: Thu Apr 29, 2010 10:11 am 
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fwiffo wrote:
Yes, that's necessary for compatibility with Safari. Apparently Safari absurdly makes text smaller if you specify "monospace". It irritates me that I have to follow a bad practice by not specifying it, but such is the nature of making things cross-browser compatible. Does your system not have any of the alternative monospace fonts I specified?

It does, but I have "Allow pages to choose their own fonts, instead of my selections above" unchecked,

If there's no alternative on the website side for compatibility reasons, I'll look into whether I can override the lifein19x19.com stylesheet locally.

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Post #19 Posted: Thu Apr 29, 2010 10:15 am 
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Maybe this suggested workaround would work compatibly?

http://getsatisfaction.com/typekit/topi ... _too_small

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Post #20 Posted: Thu Apr 29, 2010 11:08 am 
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If there's no alternative on the website side for compatibility reasons, I'll look into whether I can override the lifein19x19.com stylesheet locally.

The firefox plugin "Stylish" will do the trick. You have to know about CSS, though, unless some kind admin helps with that task *wink*

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