Questions regarding UI Options: Minimum text size

[Michelle D'Souza]

I've opened a JIRA for this and set the fix version for 1.1. http://issues.fluidproject.org/browse/FLUID-2398

Michelle

On 24-Mar-09, at 6:54 PM, Gary Thompson wrote:

> Michelle,
>
> I think that is a great solution.  It may be worth adding a balloon  
> help text to the Minimum Text Size label that states the behavior,  
> something like: "Any text smaller than this size will be increased  
> to the size you specify.  All larger text sizes will remain  
> unaffected."
>
> -Gary
>
> Michelle D'Souza wrote:
>> One of the reasons that we changed from having a text size setting  
>> to having a minimum text size setting was because it's important  
>> for people to be able to specify the smallest they can see. If we  
>> only set a base size, things that are scaled down from there may  
>> not be readable for the user.  The current experience is not  
>> correct however, it does do more then just set a base size - it  
>> also removes FSS classes that scale down the text size.
>>
>> I have a suggestion for a possible implementation change. We have  
>> decided that it is important for integrators to specify their  
>> defaults in order for UIOptions to behave correctly. We could add a  
>> setting in the defaultSiteSettings called 'baseTextSize'. Then  
>> setting the minimum text size could check if the size is larger  
>> then the integrator specified base text size. If it is, we would  
>> set the base font for the user to the size they had specified and  
>> remove the scaled down text sizes. If not we would only remove the  
>> scaled down text sizes that are scaled to smaller then the base  
>> text size and leave everything else the same.
>>
>> Michelle
>>
>>
>> On 23-Mar-09, at 2:42 PM, a.cheetham at utoronto.ca wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I have a question about the meaning of "Minimum text size" in the  
>>> UI Options dialog.
>>>
>>> My understanding of the purpose of "Minimum text size" is to  
>>> enlarge things that are smaller than the desired minimum, but to  
>>> leave alone anything that is already larger than the minimum. The  
>>> current implementation does not do this.
>>>
>>> I've filed a JIRA about this that describes how to view the  
>>> scenario:
>>>
>>>   http://issues.fluidproject.org/browse/FLUID-2394
>>>
>>> I've discussed the implementation with Michelle and Jacob. It  
>>> seems that it isn't really technically possible to implement what  
>>> I expect "minimum text size" to do, as described above.
>>>
>>> My question is: If we can't do this, should we be offering to do it?
>>>
>>> Maybe given what we *can* technically do, the control should be  
>>> labelled "Base text size"
>>>
>>> Thoughts?
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Anastasia Cheetham                   a.cheetham at utoronto.ca
>>> Software Designer, Fluid Project
>>> Adaptive Technology Resource Centre / University of Toronto
>>>
>>>
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>> Michelle D'Souza
>> Software Developer, Fluid Project
>> Adaptive Technology Resource Centre
>> University of Toronto
>>
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Michelle D'Souza
Software Developer, Fluid Project
Adaptive Technology Resource Centre
University of Toronto