Closed Bug 143869 Opened 23 years ago Closed 23 years ago

Minimum font size prevents user from manually zooming to a smaller size

Categories

(Core :: CSS Parsing and Computation, defect)

Product:
Core
Component:
CSS Parsing and Computation
Platform:
x86
Windows 2000
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
VERIFIED WONTFIX

People

(Reporter: jonasj, Assigned: dbaron)

References

(Blocks 1 open bug)

Details

(Keywords: fonts)

Branch build 2002050306, Win2k (I should have tested with a trunk build, I know). Go to Preferences|Appearance|Fonts and choose a minimum font size. Load some page. Now attempt to zoom (using View|Text Zoom) to a font size smaller than the one you chose as the minimum. You can't.
Recomend WONTFIX When some fonts on a page are too large for comfort it's handy to zoom down, *without* other fonts becoming so small they get unreadable. The very reason i set a minimum fontsize in the first place is because i do NOT want pages to display with smaller fonts than what i set it to. Or i wouldn't have set it.
You convinced me. (I'm the reporter)
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 23 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
The current behaviour is actually unintentional. rbs, dbaron: Do we want to keep it?
Keywords: fonts
It is a change. The initial thinking (as bug 39117 comment 35 summarizes) was to not have a limit on the zoom. This would be naturally achieved by applying the zoom after the minimum font-size.
Did you guys reach a conclusion? Personally I don't feel strongly about this, but I'd like this to be either verified or reopened...
I am fine either -- of note: the full zoom (bug 4821) won't be able to emulate this. Feel free to v.
Verified, then.
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
*** Bug 212403 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
What R.K.Aa says, is falsible: yes, the Zoom limit at the minimum font size is intentional. and yes, it is intentional, since its logical. But is it, beingt intentional and logical, necessarily practical? I think no. There are not many pages to be found which show such a small font that it gets unreadable in relation to the other fonts you want to zoom down. So my point, its simply unpractical to get a limit in the zoom factor by the minimal font size, since you have to always click your way to the preference option two times to set and unset a new minimum value (and let me add: the situation occurs rather often in my case). So please, would you came down from your high view of logic and integral software-design, and do something illogical but more practical for the user?
falsifiable, not falsible
The point of the minimum font size is to prevent text from becoming illegibly small. Failure to enforce it would prevent users from being able to zoom out on pages that have a mix of text that is too large and too small.
Blocks: text-zoom-breakage
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