From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Message-Id: <201008311737.o7VHbgG24526@momjian.us>
Subject: Re: [pgsql-www] Example indenting
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikvF6tSkC4_zZ7pvWhYh55pkFbrZMLkatt3ahoi@mail.gmail.com>
To: Thom Brown <thom@linux.com>
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 13:37:42 -0400 (EDT)
CC: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, jd@commandprompt.com,
	Kevin Grittner <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov>,
	Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org>,
	pgsql-docs@postgresql.org, Erik Rijkers <er@xs4all.nl>
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Thom Brown wrote:
> In a way I am.  Users have the ability (although not often exercised)
> to change the default font and size.  I gave the HTML tag a font-size,
> so that anything under it would be based on that.  We use relative
> font sizes in our CSS, which means usually we'd be proportional to
> whatever the user had set.  But what I've done is set a base size
> (17px in this case, and only in documentation) which everything else
> will be based on.  So the downside is whatever the user set their
> default font size to in their browser will be ignored (or not fallen
> back to if you prefer).  This doesn't, however, prevent them from
> using a text zoom (available in pretty much every web browser) to
> increase the size of all rendered fonts.
> 
> The problem is, by default, Firefox sets proportional fonts to 16px,
> and monospace to 12px, so there's always a visual discrepancy when
> these fonts appear alongside one another.
> 
> But the benefit of the javascript hack was that we weren't setting a
> base font size for everything, we just bump up the relative font size
> for elements which are monospaced by default.
> 
> There's pros and cons to both approaches.  I'm not sure which one you
> guys prefer.

If we are using Javascript, why can't we probe the font size and do
something reasonable, e.g. make monospace larger only if it smaller than
proportional?

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