Re: Bugzilla down for software upgrade on Sun 18 Dec 09.00 UTC

[Bill Haneman <Bill Haneman Sun COM>]

Yes, please don't alter the default font size.  It makes it even harder 
for a11y users to file/track bugs, (and it apparently makes it harder 
for Tim and me as well)

thanks

Bill

Tim Janik wrote:

> On Tue, 6 Dec 2005, Olav Vitters wrote:
>
> > Soon it will be time to make Bugzilla unavailable for 5 hours. This will
> > be done on Sunday 18 December on 9.00 UTC or:
> > http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=12&day=18&year=2005&hour=9&min=0&sec=0&p1=0 
> >
> >
> > During the downtime I'll upgrade bugzilla.gnome.org to a customized
> > Bugzilla 2.20. This version is currently running on
> > http://bugzilla-test.gnome.org/ (not the same database). During the
> > upgrade you can join #bugs on irc.gnome.org to see the progress.
>
>
> thanks for doing the move.
>
> however i have a hard time reading the bugs with the new bugzilla due to
> the font size. a bit of investigation reveals:
>
> ===http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi*===
> <link href="skins/custom/global.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
> ===
> ===http://bugzilla.gnome.org/skins/custom/global.css===
> body {
>          font-family: "Bitstream Vera Sans", "Luxi Sans", "Lucida 
> Grande", "Trebuchet MS", helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif;
>          font-size: small;
> [...]
> ===
>
> is there any strong reason to not leave the default font size
> the default font size? (could hardly believe so)
>
> for me, this means i have to manually scale-up the font size everytime
> i visit a bugzilla page (which happens quite often a day), and due
> to the font-size stepping in firefox, i don't even end up at the usual
> 100% but somewhere beyond which gives me monster headers etc.
>
> so, to restore readability at least for some users, can we please change
> the body font size back to the usual 100%? this should in most cases be
> accustomed to the best font size the user can operate at. and having good
> readability for a tool like bugzilla is probably a gazillion times more
> imporant than any aesthetic concern.
>
> > --
> > Regards,
> > Olav
>
>
> ---
> ciaoTJ
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