Font size at Wikipedia

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.

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In memoriam Alan J. Flavell
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Andreas Prilop 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.

At least in English Wikipedia, you can also add your own styles to your
account and have them apply from wherever you connect. See

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Skin

On a related note, for handheld users there's a suitable Wikipedia
mirror at http://wapedia.mobi.

In article
<Pine.GSO.4.63.0804211844060.21089 (AT) s5b004 (DOT) rrzn.uni-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.

--
dorayme

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...)

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.

--
I used to believe in reincarnation in a former life.

David Stone 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...)

The userContent.css file should be in the chrome folder in your user
profile.

http://edmullen.net/Mozilla/moz_profile.php

--
Ed Mullen
http://edmullen.net
Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to
those of us who do - Isaac Asimov

In article
<Pine.GSO.4.63.0804221609440.29576 (AT) s5b004 (DOT) rrzn.uni-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. For the international version of the
BBC news site, for example, the result is text that's actually
significantly larger than my default, but slightly smaller
if I choose the UK version. (This appears to be in part
because the international version uses san-serif for the
body text, while the UK uses serif.)

Now I will have to search back through this thread to find
what the alternative, more Wike-specific fix was...

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 }
}

--
David
Stardate 8308.8

On 2008/04/22 13:39 (GMT-0400) David Stone apparently typed:

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

That behavior is the reason why this particular thread spur began. Read the
table about 2/3 of the way down
http://www.bergamotus.ws/misc/sensib...xt-sizing.html and
http://fm.no-ip.com/SS/Clagnut/bbcnSS.html . 100% in user stylesheet
body,html impacts the same way as minimum font size, usually to a greater
extent, because of a minimum set to a smaller size than the default size.
--
"Either the constitution controls the judges, or the
judges rewrite the constitution." Judge Robert Bork

Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409

Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/

On 2008/04/22 15:24 (GMT-0400) Felix Miata apparently typed:

That behavior is the reason why this particular thread spur began.

Scratch that. Nothing to do with this thread. Does have to do with the thread
"Using top-level selectors".
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"Either the constitution controls the judges, or the
judges rewrite the constitution." Judge Robert Bork

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Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/