56440 - Need 'minimum font size' pref

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 30910

(SeaMonkey :: Preferences, defect, P3)

Description

[Matthew Brealey]

Having just strained my eyes on one of the style sheets on the Microsoft site 
(font-size: 70%), I would very much like to see a pref for 'minimum font size'. 

This is something I first saw in Konqueror, where it is set by default to 
something like 12px (AIR).

However, combined with bug 28899 it would be nice to select on install/first 
run 'I don't want to look at text any smaller than this' with lines of 
increasingly illegible text.

Unfortunately this doesn't entirely work because of font differences - x-
heights vary, and some fonts are less legible [*] at small typesizes (e.g., 
serif fonts (although if well hinted this shouldn't matter too much)), so it 
would probably be best to store it as minimum x-height.

* I am just about to open a bug on font banning so that I don't get subjected 
to any more illegible fonts.

Comment 1

[Matthew Brealey]

Font banning is 56441.

Comment 2

[R.K.Aa.]

dup of 30910 "Pref for minimum font size"

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 30910 ***

Comment 3

[R.K.Aa.]

I notice you set OS to Windows 2000 here. Do you mean to say it's a
MS Windows-problem? Asking, since you refer to Konqueror, and AFAIK that's a
linux app. There is a pref you can add manually on linux, regarding min.
font-size, for instance:

user_pref("font.min-size.variable.x-western", 12);

Anyways - this is still a dup. It was Erik van der Poel who informed about the
above preference in bug 30910.

Comment 4

[Matthew Brealey]

Sorry about the dupe: I did a body search hoping it would be more accurate, but 
the text only appeared in the header :-(.

> I notice you set OS to Windows 2000 here. 

Automatically done by bugzilla. It's my office Windows version (winnt 4 crashed 
several times daily).

> Do you mean to say it's a MS Windows-problem? 

Not specifically; in this case the problem was that font-size: 70% is too 
****ing small, especially given that my Win machine has only got a 17" monitor 
but I set the resolution high. I don't get this problem on my Linux/Solaris 
machine, but only because it has a 25" monitor.

> Asking, since you refer to Konqueror, and AFAIK that's a linux app. 

No, I believe KDE compiles most Unix architectures.

> There is a pref you can add manually on linux, regarding min. font-size, 

Cool.

Comment 5

[R.K.Aa.]

when i said Konki=linux app, i really meant "as in contradiction to MSWin app"
I'm not sure the font-pref is valid on MSWin, you see, but thought you perhaps
observerved the bug on a *nix box...oh bother... ;)

Anyways: 30910 is comfortably set to "OS: All", which should about cover it.

Comment 6

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

Verified dup.