Bug #14396
closed
css for backend is defined with hard sizes / unscaleable
Added by old_alx about 20 years ago.
Updated over 16 years ago.
Description
All (?) sizes of the backend aren't defined relative but in hard values. So you need IE for RTE but you can't scale the page in IE. If you are visually handicapped or have got to work on a high-resolution TFT thats a real problem.
(issue imported from #M516)
Closing this for two reasons.
1. This may change some time in the future with a new backend skin.
2. This is a "bug" with IE, if you ask me. Opera and Firefox enlarge the text fine, even for "absolute" sizes, i.e. px (people tend to think pt is fine, but it's as absolute as px). Furthermore this is configurable in MSIE, it can be switched on. "Settings > General > Accessibility > Ignore text sizes on web pages"
I only would like to reply on Karsten Dambekalns's note.
I believe, that it is hard to define the backend flexible or scaleable and I know about the difference between IE and Opera/Firefox regarding the scaling of fixed CSS font sizes, but
<cite>Furthermore this is configurable in MSIE, it can be switched on. "Settings > General > Accessibility > Ignore text sizes on web pages"</cite>
that's no solution, because you can define this only in general and not site-specific and you loose then all font sizes - even relative differences - defined in CSS.
May I cite the CSS2 Specification of the W3C:
"Absolute length units are only useful when the physical properties of the output medium are known." http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/syndata.html#x41
That's exactly what I mean.
Nevertheless I know how hard it is to implement this consequently.
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