I've had good luck with https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/theme-font-size-changer/ on Mac. It may be a good place to play with some of the user-experiences available if we want to provide something in core Firefox...
Dan 2016-09-09 17:23 GMT-07:00 Myk Melez <[email protected]>: > Justin Dolske <[email protected]> > 2016 September 8 at 15:41 > > "Make things bigger" is somewhat curious... On Windows this is typically > done by adjusting the display scaling factor in the OS settings. I wonder > if people don't know about that, or are looking to make Firefox -- > specifically -- larger than normal. I'm unclear on what Linux offers these > days, and while I think OS X supports this internally it's not exposed in > any UI. (Apple's preferred route seems to be screen zooming. Which is neat, > I use it all the time and have normal vision.) So I'd be curious to > understand this use-case better. > > I suspect that users indeed are unaware that they can fix this in OS > settings (except on Mac), and if an OS vendor asked the same questions > about the system as a whole, they'd get a similar response. It'd be > interesting for us to confirm that with a followup question about Firefox > vs. apps in general. > > For my part, I too have "normal" (i.e. emmetropic) vision too (although > lately with a bit of presbyopia). Nevertheless, I've long found native UI > affordances to be too small. In the past, I've decreased the resolution of > my display or installed themes with larger icons (in apps that support > themes) to mitigate the issue. These days I mostly just live with it for > native apps. But I almost always zoom web apps. > > Although it's dangerous to extrapolate from a sample of two (especially us > two!) I suspect we aren't isolated cases, and there's a population of folks > with "normal" vision who nonetheless prefer larger affordances for better > readability, easier click targets, etc. and are willing to trade off space > for content or other windows (or, in your case, to use features like screen > zooming). > > Separately from themes, I think it would be a good idea to consider adding > preferences UI for the default zoom-level of page content in Firefox. > > Indeed. Another interesting (but more complex to implement) option would > be to adjust that zoom level to maximize the horizontal usage of space of a > page, zooming more for sites with small font sizes and narrow columns of > content, and less for sites where the default zoom level pushes content > offscreen and creates horizontal scrollbars (or triggers an over-responsive > mobile-friendly rearranging of content). > > -myk > > > _______________________________________________ > firefox-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/firefox-dev > > _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
