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To: John Busby who wrote (15681)11/10/2001 11:56:21 PM
From: tennessee_ted  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 32917
 
Font sizes: I noticed a change quite awhile ago, when all the message bodies' text exploded in size. They're still that way and I've given up trying to deal with it on the browser end, and I know what I'm doing. I complained about it when the change occurred, but was given the "its your browser" treatment. From looking at the raw html code, it appears that the text size for the message bodies is being separately controlled by style sheets referenced by each page, or the software controlling the on the fly formatting of pages is specifying text sizes for the bodies, but leaving the headers and other page text components alone, so they default to the browser text size settings.
This is easily seen right here on the reply editing page, where all the text is the same font size, including the message I'm replying to in the bottom half, while the message I'm replying to has a MUCH larger font size on the page I clicked "reply to" from.
My suggestion for a solution is to eliminate the font size commands from the style sheets and normal text displays, and only use them for headings, etc., where the enhanced size is needed to stand out. Then we can use the text size setting in our browser to make it as small or large as required for our personal legibility needs. I like it small and it drives me crazy having to constantly mouse around the scroll bar because the messages' font is so large that I get less than half the lines I use in my word processing software. And if the programmers tell you it's fine on their machines, tell 'em that they're not the ones paying for SI and to just remove the damn size commands anyway.
-Ted