Re: [boost] Re: Boost Documentation templates: unresponsive text size

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-02-14 11:45:15

In two postings, bill_kempf wrote:

 >--- In boost_at_y..., "David Abrahams" <david.abrahams_at_r...> wrote:
 >> Is this something having to do with the .css? No matter what I do
 >in my
 >> browser, the text size stays the same.
 >
 >I'm not sure.  The .css does specify specific point sizes for the
 >text... but I would have thought the browser would just "stretch" the
 >text accordingly.  I'll do some research and see.  If it is because
 >of the specification of point sizes for the fonts I can remove that
 >portion in boost.css.

And then again,

 >OK, you want the browser to select the font (which you override
 >globally with browser preferences).  Currently I'm on a project
 >that's striving hard to ensure a consistent look and feel in HTML
 >applications, so leaving the choice to the browser is not
 >acceptable.  However, Boost doesn't have the same strict look and
 >feel needs, so I'm open to leaving the choice up to the browser.

I think both of these have now been resolved, but I just want to reiterate 
that Boost's HTML needs to defer specific fonts and sizes to the browser.

Specific fonts are a problem for browsers on unusual (to computer users) 
platforms like web appliances.

Specific sizes are a disaster if the screen size is particularly large or 
small, or if the resolution is particularly high or low.  I run into that 
personally a lot when I hit web sites that display fonts so small they 
can't be read easily on my 1600 x 1200 19" screen, and refuse to respond to 
the browser's larger settings.

--Beman