Re: Larger fonts...

Tom, You're right - I tried to catch it before it went, but just too late! To the list - please ignore the message Tom refers to - it's not too commercially sensitive, at least. I probably need more coffee before fielding bug reports in the morning. Cheers Pete Tom Chubb wrote: > Pete, > Before you get slated by the list, I'm guessing you meant to send this > to someone else? > (It came to me via the PHP-General Mailing List. > > Tom > > 2009/4/8 Peter Ford <pete@justcroft.com > <mailto:pete@justcroft.com>> > > Patrick, > > The reason you think the fonts are too small is that you have > (un)zoomed the > screen at some point. The proportions of the centre white panel to > the side bars > is wrong. > Measuring your screenshots, and assuming you had a full-screen > browser window at > 1680x1050 resolution (what your monitor does), I work out that the > white section > of the screen is only around 800 pixels wide - it is defined to be > 1000 pixels > wide at normal magnification. Measuring the icons suggests that your > screen is > showing them at 42 pixels, while they are supposed to be 56 pixels. > Overall, > your seeing the whole thing at 80% full size - no wonder the fonts > look small! > > The fonts and icon sizes haven't changed for about a year, and you > haven't > really complained before. > > In addition, you are using a pretty large screen - the pages are > designed to > work on a 1024x768 screen as a minimum. Making the fonts larger would > drastically reduce the amount of information displayed vertically - > it's already > pretty tight on some of the design screens. > > So, I'll ignore the calls for bigger fonts and icons. > > The button icons may also look better at full size, but the main > problem is that > they need to be properly designed. Replacing them with just words is > not very > good - it makes them all different sizes, which messes up the layout. > I could remove the shaded background and see if that helps. > > Other points I will work on. > > Cheers > > -- > Peter Ford phone: 01580 893333 > Developer fax: 01580 893399 > Justcroft International Ltd., Staplehurst, Kent > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > > > -- > Tom Chubb > tom@tomchubb.com <mailto:tom@tomchubb.com> | > tomchubb@gmail.com > <mailto:tomchubb@gmail.com> > 07912 202846 -- Peter Ford, Developer phone: 01580 893333 fax: 01580 893399 Justcroft International Ltd. www.justcroft.com Justcroft House, High Street, Staplehurst, Kent TN12 0AH United Kingdom Registered in England and Wales: 2297906 Registered office: Stag Gates House, 63/64 The Avenue, Southampton SO17 1XS