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#1 2002-06-03 14:33:33
Re: TEXT IS SIMPLY TOO DAMN SMALL - MAGNIFY OR DIE
WHAT EXACTLY IS WITH THIS TEXT-SIZE LIMITATION?
WHY DO OTHERS AND MYSELF HAVE TO DEPEND UPON UTILIZING THE SCREEN MAGNIFIER?
IS THIS AN INTENDED JOKE OR WHAT?
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#2 2002-06-03 14:36:58
- Phobos
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Re: TEXT IS SIMPLY TOO DAMN SMALL - MAGNIFY OR DIE
The text size seems fine to me. Maybe you need to see an optometrist. 
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#3 2002-06-03 18:45:29
- arafel
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Re: TEXT IS SIMPLY TOO DAMN SMALL - MAGNIFY OR DIE
I don't think its the fault of the original poster - it just renders that way in some browsers, which is very annoying. I'm not quite sure why - this text is nowhere near 8point, as far as I can tell. I would upload a screen grab so you can see what it looks like on my browser, but the grab's 300KB, so maybe not...
Anyway. Adrian, if you're reading, could you have a look at it with opera and mozilla and see if you have the same problem? Cheers1
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#4 2002-06-03 22:46:44
- Josh Cryer
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Re: TEXT IS SIMPLY TOO DAMN SMALL - MAGNIFY OR DIE
It is pretty small, but I like it that way. But I'm willing to go for a bigger size if everyone else agrees to it. Keep the font though.
BTW, it looks the same in Opera, IE, and Netscape (although the font in the latest version of Netscape is a bit wack, plus, the main page is not displayed properly).
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#5 2002-06-04 15:21:13
Re: TEXT IS SIMPLY TOO DAMN SMALL - MAGNIFY OR DIE
I will check when Mozilla 1.0 comes out (should be soon). I know there's a problem with the front page, its HTML is shocking - I wrote it myself and I forgot to close all the table and HTML tags. Netscape has a real problem with this, I'm told. Anyway, I'll try to get around to fixing it soon, but if I was completely honest I would say that I don't particularly care too much about people who use a five year old browser.
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#6 2002-06-04 17:24:42
- arafel
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Re: TEXT IS SIMPLY TOO DAMN SMALL - MAGNIFY OR DIE
Er, my Opera (www.opera.com) and Mozilla (www.mozilla.org) versions are less than a month old... not sure where you got five years from. Forget writing for Netscape 4 ;-)
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#7 2002-06-04 17:28:55
Re: TEXT IS SIMPLY TOO DAMN SMALL - MAGNIFY OR DIE
Yes, but that's not what I meant. I don't know what the forums or main site look like in Mozilla or Opera, although according to Josh they look fine. I was referring to the fact that the entire site almost certainly looks terrible in Netscape 4 - which is five years old (the link points to a post about it).
Yet some people do still use it and I do get the very occasional complaint about the site not working with it. I admit that I could write better HTML so it would work (and I will) but I have little patience for people who are using such dated browsers. It seems that most of the people who have problems with the site rendering are running Netscape 4.
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