I just went to look at dglenn.net, via the link at the top of this page. Why do you insist on showing us stuff in what appears to be six-point type? (I tried telling Firefox not to let sites use their own fonts, and it made no difference, except when I came back to this LJ page.)
I realize that wasn't what you were asking about, but it does seem relevant.
Hmm. All the font changes I used (as I recall) are supposed to be relative, not absolute, so that they'd be reasonable in proportion to the reader's comfortable default font. But I've noticed that different browsers seem to have different ideas of what "make it smaller" means.
Major chunks of my site haven't been edited (other than fixing links here and there) since before I started learning about CSS; I'm not sure whether it would work better or worse using style directives instead of <font> tags to do the relative scaling. The wee type is supposed to be stuff I wanted findable but not distracting, and/or stuff that was repeated on page after page that I didn't want to eat up a lot of real estate with. Given that monitor sizes have changed a lot since I coded most of that, I guess it's time for me to overhaul the design. (Which would also be a good time to switch to using PHP on the server, since I finally can, instead of what I'd been doing before for major edits: edit a PHP page offline and generate a static HTML page from it to upload. If I don't change too much, I can do it all by editing my header and footer include files, but properly I ought to do more than that to make use of CSS.)
Yeah; if you change to CSS and use font sizes in relative em, for instance, instead of flat -x, I think it would work better. I can see it fine in Opera, but in Firefox I get the same problem mentioned above.
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I realize that wasn't what you were asking about, but it does seem relevant.
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Major chunks of my site haven't been edited (other than fixing links here and there) since before I started learning about CSS; I'm not sure whether it would work better or worse using style directives instead of <font> tags to do the relative scaling. The wee type is supposed to be stuff I wanted findable but not distracting, and/or stuff that was repeated on page after page that I didn't want to eat up a lot of real estate with. Given that monitor sizes have changed a lot since I coded most of that, I guess it's time for me to overhaul the design. (Which would also be a good time to switch to using PHP on the server, since I finally can, instead of what I'd been doing before for major edits: edit a PHP page offline and generate a static HTML page from it to upload. If I don't change too much, I can do it all by editing my header and footer include files, but properly I ought to do more than that to make use of CSS.)
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