[fedora-websites] #246: fedora.css sets a universal scaling factor of 76%, which is much too small
by fedora-badges
#246: fedora.css sets a universal scaling factor of 76%, which is much too small
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Reporter: adamwill | Owner: webmaster
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: major | Milestone:
Component: General | Keywords: css font size
Blocked By: | Blocking:
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fedora.css, which all Fedora websites are encouraged to use, has this
right at the top:
body
{
font-size: 76%;
background: #FFFFFF url(../images/border-left.png) 0 0 repeat-y;
}
It's been there for years, since before the stuff was imported to git, so
its history may be obscure at this point, but Googling around, it looks
like 76% was considered a 'rule' by some so-called authorities at some
point. http://www.sitepoint.com/css-font-sizing-tutorial/ has mention of
it in the comments, http://forums.modx.com/thread/?thread=17583 has some
chatter about it, http://www.baekdal.com/insights/new-minimum-font-size is
from 2005 and cites 76% as the new *minimum* recommended font size, etc.
I think it's pretty unarguably too small for the modern day, though.
Taking the standard 'base size' for browsers - 16px - and using the 96dpi
convention, text at '76%' is 12.16px in size, which is equivalent to 9pt.
How many people do you know who have their desktops set to a 9pt font on a
modern system? Particularly a modern *laptop*. Reading text on Fedora
sites on most systems without zooming or overriding the CSS or setting a
large minimum px size in your browser (which is undesirable for other
reasons) is a pretty tiring experience even for me, and I still have
effectively perfect eyesight for reading text; it must be more or less
impossible for anyone with somewhat less than perfect eyesight.
Yes, this is the thing Felix Miata is always banging on about, but you
know what? Now I spent a day actually looking into this stuff, he's
absolutely damn right. Sorry, Felix. I hope this post was calm and
reasonable enough and brought enough numbers. :)
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Ticket URL: <https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-websites/ticket/246>
fedora-websites <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Websites>
Fedora Website Team's Trac instance
9 years, 5 months
[fedora-websites] #252: Fudcon header too big
by fedora-badges
#252: Fudcon header too big
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Reporter: cydrobolt | Owner: webmaster
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: major | Milestone: ASAP
Component: General | Keywords:
Blocked By: | Blocking:
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The fudcon header is too big, it occupies too much of the space and looks
ugly. On lower resolutions, it takes away even more space. Perhaps make it
a smaller navbar or make it navbar-default instead of navbar-fixed-top?
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Ticket URL: <https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-websites/ticket/252>
fedora-websites <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Websites>
Fedora Website Team's Trac instance
10 years, 1 month
Why would Fedora Make a Built Available for Download
by shadabul mujib
Hi Sir,
I have a simple question, which is why would fedora make a built available for download from fedora official site and mirror which if u install and subsequently try to set up a gmail act using da feature called Onlline Acts available from Settings Pannel, that tries to fetch data or do something to a user by da name of ray something?
I am a newbie, how concerned should I be? are there similar traps set through out Fedora Built?
Humbly
shad
10 years, 1 month