A firefox secret

[Dotan Cohen]

On 17/03/07, Scott van Looy <scott at ethosuk.org.uk> wrote:
> Today Dotan Cohen did spake thusly:
>
> > On 17/03/07, Scott van Looy <scott at ethosuk.org.uk> wrote:
> >> > I know that. But when I'm wearing me "end user" hat, I don't care
> >> > about technical reasons. I want things to work.
> >>
> >> That's nice, but you're blaming the wrong people. :P
> >
> > No, I'm not. A web browser is a client-side app, therefore it should
> > do what the client wants. Even if web designers used px measurements,
> > the browser should override that with the user's preference.
>
> No it shouldn't. It should provide a way for the designer of the page to
> allow this behaviour, which it does.

No. It should obey the end user. This issue has been discussed to
death in the Fx development community regarding autocomplete disable
on forms. Google it if you must. Long story short: it's my f-ing
computer, it should do what I say. Why should I have to cut and paste
text into Notepad to read it?

> > The term
> > "large fonts" means "make the fonts bigger than they normally would
> > be", not "make some of the fonts bigger than they normally would be".
>
> As I said, depends if the site developer has a clue...

It should not be in his hands.

Dotan Cohen

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