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* [PATCH] hval: set font-size:100% for all elements
@ 2019-01-01  7:51  7% Eric Wong
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From: Eric Wong @ 2019-01-01  7:51 UTC (permalink / raw)
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GUI browsers have a tendency to use a larger (though sometimes
smaller) font than the rest of the page for some reason I could
not find...

So set everything to 100% to give uniformity to the page; which
benefits visually-challenged users who want to use gigantic
fonts for the entire page.
---
 lib/PublicInbox/Hval.pm | 13 +++++++++----
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/PublicInbox/Hval.pm b/lib/PublicInbox/Hval.pm
index c47057f..ccfa324 100644
--- a/lib/PublicInbox/Hval.pm
+++ b/lib/PublicInbox/Hval.pm
@@ -11,10 +11,15 @@ use PublicInbox::MID qw/mid_clean mid_escape/;
 use base qw/Exporter/;
 our @EXPORT_OK = qw/ascii_html obfuscate_addrs to_filename/;
 
-# for user-generated content (UGC) which may have excessively long lines
-# and screw up rendering on some browsers.  This is the only CSS style
-# feature we use.
-use constant STYLE => '<style>pre{white-space:pre-wrap}</style>';
+# User-generated content (UGC) may have excessively long lines
+# and screw up rendering on some browsers, so we use pre-wrap.
+#
+# We also force everything to the same scaled font-size because GUI
+# browsers (tested both Firefox and surf (webkit)) uses a larger font
+# for the Search <form> element than the rest of the page.  Font size
+# uniformity is important to people who rely on gigantic fonts.
+use constant STYLE =>
+	'<style>pre{white-space:pre-wrap}*{font-size:100%}</style>';
 
 my $enc_ascii = find_encoding('us-ascii');
 
-- 
EW


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