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Sites are styled by default browser stylings. When font changes are inherited from user's settings however, it basically just breaks everything. For accessibi
by SquareWheel 8y ago
Sites are styled by default browser stylings. When font changes are inherited from user's settings however, it basically just breaks everything.
For accessibility reasons, using the zoom feature is much more stable than increasing the default font size.
- chriswarbo 8y ago> Sites are styled by default browser stylings Which users choose according to their preferences (e.g. Firefox offers a preferences dialogue for this, and a bunch of about:config options). Whilst most users leave these as the OS/browser vendor's defaults, (in the words of Rush) "if you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice". > When font changes are inherited from user's settings however, it basically just breaks everything. > For accessibility reasons, using the zoom feature is much more stable than increasing the default font size. So you're agreeing that all these sites are broken?
- SquareWheel 8y agoNo, it's just a lost cause. I've had people complain that their website looks crazy on one specific PC, and after tons of debugging found it's because somebody set their default font size to 200px. Of course, the majority of websites apply their own font styling so this doesn't often come up anymore. But those settings are just death traps at this point. Ineffective in 90% of cases, and hazardous in the 10% where they do work.