A table of free replacements for Windows software [LWN.net]

A table of free replacements for Windows software

Posted Feb 26, 2003 20:50 UTC (Wed) by cjcoats (guest, #9833) [Link]

This article would be *much* more usable if the authors did not force the text into an unreadably small font by their

<STYLE>
A:link { text-decoration: none; color: #0000CC; }
A:visited { text-decoration: none; color: #0000CC; }
A:active { text-decoration: none; color: #ff0000; }
A:hover { text-decoration: underline; color : #ff0000; }
body {
        font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
        font-size: 10pt;
  text-align: justify;
        background: #FDFDFD;
        margin-left: 10;
        margin-top: 10;
        margin-right: 10;
        margin-bottom: 10;
}
.tablemain {font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left}
</STYLE>

If they want me to endorse it, or even just to read it, then they certainly need to change it into something readable first!

A table of free replacements for Windows software

Posted Feb 26, 2003 21:37 UTC (Wed) by dcarrera (guest, #9087) [Link]

I agree. I am really tired of all those pages with unbearably small fonts. Why do they do that? Why in the world would you go out of your way to specify a tiny font?

Yes, I know that in Mozilla I can go View->Zoom, but that's not the point. Your pages shouldn't be broken in the first place.

Mozilla shortcuts

Posted Feb 26, 2003 21:58 UTC (Wed) by frazier (guest, #3060) [Link]

If they want me to endorse it, or even just to read it, then they certainly need to change it into something readable first!

I started to reply and someone beat me to it.

The keyboard shortcut for increase font size is CTRL++ (control plus) and to bump fonts down use CTRL+- (control minus).

While on the topic of Mozilla shortcuts, I find the Google highlight search handy. Goto Edit>Preferences>Navigator>Internet Search and set your Default Search Engine to Google. Anytime you want to search for something in a web page, highlight the text and right click, then select search.

There's lots of cool, useful features in Mozilla.

Mozilla shortcuts

Posted Feb 27, 2003 2:17 UTC (Thu) by DamonLynch (guest, #9837) [Link]

I find the minimum font size preference very handy. It means I never have to worry about this problem. It would be useful if other programs, e.g. Evolution, had this feature.
Damon

Mozilla shortcuts

Posted Feb 27, 2003 11:28 UTC (Thu) by cjcoats (guest, #9833) [Link]

It's still my screen and my computer. One thing I hate with Mozilla these days is the fact that I am forced to do repeated shrink or expand operations every time I go to a new web site these days, just to be able to read it. And Mozilla seems to have no way to control fontSizeIncrement. And doesn/t respect Xdefaults.

Frankly, it makes old NetScape4 more pleasant in comparison. And then someone like these folks manage to figure out how to screw that up!

A table of free replacements for Windows software

Posted Feb 27, 2003 4:43 UTC (Thu) by foo@share-foo.com (guest, #7940) [Link]

I bet it looks great in IE.

A table of free replacements for Windows software

Posted Feb 27, 2003 9:35 UTC (Thu) by NAR (subscriber, #1313) [Link]

I don't know, but it looks OK in links and in opera...

Bye,NAR

A table of free replacements for Windows software

Posted Feb 27, 2003 19:18 UTC (Thu) by mwh63 (guest, #321) [Link]

Nope, it's small and hard to read in IE, too.

A table of free replacements for Windows software

Posted Feb 27, 2003 19:53 UTC (Thu) by dbreakey (guest, #1381) [Link]

Try using the Phoenix browser alternative—it doesn't appear to have any problems remembering user-selected settings and interpreting CSS styles relative to those settings. I typically read pages on a 1280x1024 screen, with the font size incremented by two steps, and Phoenix appears to consistently remember that across pages.

I'm using Phoenix 0.5 on Windows 2000 as I post this…

Actually, I'm running Windows 2000 in a VMWare session under Linux. Heh…