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[neyon]

Seems as if your "code text" font is is smaller the past few days (yes, I mean the green code between the code and /code brackets...).

Greetz Neyon
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Greetz,
Neyon

[Titan]

The forum's code font is discussed in this topic.

Chris, I believe that if the CSS was changed to make the font size 80%, users seeing Courier New (like neyon and myself) would see the text better.
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[Chris]

Yes, but then users like Serenity would find the font too large! I've added a poll to help decide. To demonstrate the font size, here is a code section:

[evl]

I think the new size is about right - it also makes the code sections a little more compact.

[PhiLho]

Looks OK for me, on Firefox 1.0, with Andale Mono installed and no zoom (Display / Text size).

Note that Firefox allows to change the base size of the monospaced font (I chose 13px) independently of the other fonts.

I just noticed: the Topic review in the Reply page shows code in a different font (not Andale Mono, italic!).
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vPhiLho := RegExReplace("Philippe Lhoste", "^(\w{3})\w*\s+\b(\w{3})\w*$", "$1$2")

[Chris]

[Serenity]

With the font size at 75%...

On 2k:
On 800x600 and 1024x768 resolutions, the font size is too small in Firefox but ok in IE and Opera (code font looks almost as large as main text).

On XP:
At 1024x768, the font size is ok in Firefox and IE.

Another issue with using % instead of px or em (preferable) is that when changing the font size of the page with Firefox (Ctrl+WheelUp/Down), the font size of the code doesn't appear to change until you have made the body text far too large. :( The font size of all classes (code, quote etc) should increase/decrease proportionately.

Using Ctrl+WheelUp/Down in IE, only the size of the code font changes.

[Chris]

Since I changed the font size again, I reset the poll.

The font is now:
font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px
font-family: Andale Mono, Courier New, Courier

This seems somewhere between the original/long-standing size of Courier/11 and the abandoned/new size of Courier New/75%. Hopefully this is a good compromise for everyone because I don't think there's much else that can be done with it.

As someone suggested, switching back to px (rather than percentage) seemed better because all the other CSS sizes are in px (i.e. it might produce more consistent results).

Line-height is an interesting setting because if omitted, MSIE seems to provide a different default than Firefox. The setting of 14 provides very little space between lines, but that may be appropriate for code sections. Comments are welcome.

[neyon]

@Chris:
I have not problem with that. I can accept that sometimes you have to choose a solution that's acceptable for the most community members.
Thanks.
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Greetz,
Neyon

[Serenity]

[PhiLho]

I notice you switched back to sans-serif as fallback family:
font-family: Andale Mono, Courier New, Courier, sans-serif;
Is this deliberate or an overlook?
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vPhiLho := RegExReplace("Philippe Lhoste", "^(\w{3})\w*\s+\b(\w{3})\w*$", "$1$2")

[Chris]

"sans-serif" was always there, I just didn't mention it because no one seems to care about it . Maybe it's because 99% of visitors have either Courier or Courier New (since 99% of visitors probably use Windows at least part of the time).