On Monday, July 21, 2003, at 05:38 PM, Erik Zachte wrote:
What about giving the reader more control over things
like font type
and
size ?
This is really not so hard to do. A special page could offer choices in
font size, style and colour.
This sounds like a great idea. K5 does something similar, and it's
nice to be able to select your own fonts.
The choices would be stored in a cookie
(ok, a small minority will not benefit from this). Settings are applied
through javascript after the page has loaded. So, minimal overhead for
the server, it just includes a static js file. Direct feedback for the
user, click a different size and presto! view the results. These
formatting options might be added to the preferences page.
Hmm... One of the things I've learned while designing websites is that
you should never count on any two user's JavaScript implementations
doing the same thing. That's probably a cynical point of view, but
still -- the differences between JavaScript implementations can vary
quite a lot. I'm not sure that's really the way to go. (OTOH, I don't
have any better ideas -- embedding a tiny piece of CSS in each page
served to a registered user would be nice, but most likely way too
server-intensive.)
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