Font size at Wikipedia

In article <no.email-F6CF83.08003622042008 (AT) news1 (DOT) chem.utoronto.ca>,
David Stone <no.email (AT) domain (DOT) invalid> wrote:

In article <doraymeRidThis-E4AEF6.07460222042008 (AT) web (DOT) aioe.org>,
dorayme <doraymeRidThis (AT) optusnet (DOT) com.au> wrote:

In article
Pine.GSO.4.63.0804211844060.21089 (A...ni-hannover.de>,
Andreas Prilop <prilop2008 (AT) trashmail (DOT) net> wrote:

If you have a browser that supports user stylesheets (like Firefox),
then you can write

html, body, #globalWrapper { font-size: 100% !important }

into your own stylesheet (e.g. userContent.css) and read
Wikipedia's pages in your *own* font size.

Thank you for the reminder to do this. Most of the Mac browsers support
this.

Where would you put the css file, or does it not matter?
(Also running on Mac...)

It does not matter where you put it as long as it is on a disk that runs
when your browser runs. In Safari, for example, you can set this up in
preferences and it will ask you where you want to plonk the user
stylesheet and present you with a dialog box and you simply choose where
to save it.

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dorayme

In article <doraymeRidThis-F76FFA.07445923042008 (AT) web (DOT) aioe.org>,
dorayme <doraymeRidThis (AT) optusnet (DOT) com.au> wrote:

In article <no.email-F6CF83.08003622042008 (AT) news1 (DOT) chem.utoronto.ca>,
David Stone <no.email (AT) domain (DOT) invalid> wrote:

In article <doraymeRidThis-E4AEF6.07460222042008 (AT) web (DOT) aioe.org>,
dorayme <doraymeRidThis (AT) optusnet (DOT) com.au> wrote:

In article
Pine.GSO.4.63.0804211844060.21089 (A...ni-hannover.de>,
Andreas Prilop <prilop2008 (AT) trashmail (DOT) net> wrote:

If you have a browser that supports user stylesheets (like Firefox),
then you can write

html, body, #globalWrapper { font-size: 100% !important }

into your own stylesheet (e.g. userContent.css) and read
Wikipedia's pages in your *own* font size.

Thank you for the reminder to do this. Most of the Mac browsers support
this.

Where would you put the css file, or does it not matter?
(Also running on Mac...)

It does not matter where you put it as long as it is on a disk that runs
when your browser runs. In Safari, for example, you can set this up in
preferences and it will ask you where you want to plonk the user
stylesheet and present you with a dialog box and you simply choose where
to save it.

Having read other replies to you, I better say it speaks at least for
Safari and iCab, FF is poor in its help file and poor in its preference
options. Without David Stone's note, you would be hard put to find it!

User/Library/ApplicationSupport/Firefox/Profiles/4su3tfay.default/Chrome/
userContent-example.css indeed!

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dorayme

In article <480e3a1c$0$25045$607ed4bc (AT) cv (DOT) net>,
David Trimboli <david (AT) trimboli (DOT) name> wrote:

David Stone wrote:
In article
Pine.GSO.4.63.0804221609440.29576 (A...ni-hannover.de>,
Andreas Prilop <prilop2008 (AT) trashmail (DOT) net> wrote:

On Tue, 22 Apr 2008, David Stone wrote:

Where would you put the css file, or does it not matter?
If you mean Firefox, then search for a file named
userContent-example.css and read it.

Found it. It turns out that putting the suggested 100%
font size on html and body has some interesting side effects
with certain sites.

I think you can add domain-specific qualifiers in Mozilla appliation
stylesheets.

@-moz-document domain(wikipedia.org) {
html, body, #globalWrapper { font-size: 100% !important }
}

That works very nicely in Firefox - thank you! For the benefit
of anyone else trying this, it appears that you have to restart
Firefox after dropping/removing the userContent.css file into/from
the chrome folder - presumably, it only looks for/parses the file
once at start up.

David Stone wrote:

That works very nicely in Firefox - thank you! For the benefit
of anyone else trying this, it appears that you have to restart
Firefox after dropping/removing the userContent.css file into/from
the chrome folder - presumably, it only looks for/parses the file
once at start up.

If you think about it, it would make sense. A browser caches for a
domain and userContent.css would be applied across domains so it would
be cached once per browsing session, right?

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Take care,

Jonathan
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LITTLE WORKS STUDIO
http://www.LittleWorksStudio.com

On Tue, 22 Apr 2008, David Stone wrote:

For the international version of the BBC news site,

URL?

if I choose the UK version.

URL?

Please give always the address (URL) of the site you are
talking about!

I refer to http://www.bbc.co.uk/ and I have now also

#blq-main, #dragHelper { font-size: 100% !important }

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Solipsists of the world - unite!

In article
<Pine.GSO.4.63.0804231728080.5724 (AT) s5b004 (DOT) rrzn.uni-hannover.de>,
Andreas Prilop <prilop2008 (AT) trashmail (DOT) net> wrote:

On Tue, 22 Apr 2008, David Stone wrote:

For the international version of the BBC news site,

URL?

if I choose the UK version.

URL?

Please give always the address (URL) of the site you are
talking about!

I refer to http://www.bbc.co.uk/ and I have now also

This is the URL for both the international and UK versions
of the site. You can switch between versions using a
radio button selector on the page, which toggles the URLs
between
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/......
and
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/......

Having said that, the font differences don't seem to be
as consistent as I first thought - it seems to depend on
which particular part of the site you are looking at
in addition to which edition. Maybe Auntie Beeb is in
the process of updating things, since sometimes I see the
pages with the advertising boxes and sometimes not.

#blq-main, #dragHelper { font-size: 100% !important }

Ok, that looks helpful. I noticed when looking at the pages
in Firebug that the Beeb is another site that uses

font-family:verdana;
font-size:62.5%;

in their CSS. Ugh!