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Claudio González
Claudio González
Brainiac
September 4, 2009
Question

And what about legibility?

  • September 4, 2009
  • 4 replies
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May I refloat this discussion? It's true that I don´t have anything new to add, but I still find Arial 10 too difficult to read on screen. That's why I always post in Verdana, one of the fonts specially designed for screen usage.

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May I refloat this discussion? It's true that I don´t have anything new to add, but I still find Arial 10 too difficult to read on screen. That's why I always post in Verdana, one of the fonts specially designed for screen usage.

(Sorry, it took me a long time to find the original discussion, and I accidentally lost my link to it, but it started with a proposition to change the default font of this site from Arial to Verdana).

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    4 replies

    the_wine_snob
    the_wine_snob
    Inspiring
    September 5, 2009

    Claudio,

    I will second your suggestion, or maybe third, etc.

    Now, what I would also like to know is what is with the folk who post in all caps and HEADLINE?

    I'm old and nearly blind, but come on folk, that is just absurd.

    Or the folk, who post their entire problem in the title.

    Good suggestion,

    Hunt

    Phillip M Jones
    Phillip M Jones
    Inspiring
    September 4, 2009

    use the following use a text editor wordpad or TexEdit (for Mac)  and type

    #jive-wrapper {

    width:100% !important;

    background-color: #ffffff !important;

    background-image: none !important;

    }

    @namespace url(http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml);

    @-moz-document domain("forums.adobe.com") {
      body {
        font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif !important;
      }
    }

    Now save as userContent.css.

    save somewhere on your hard drive and locate it in your web Browser.

    Works in SeaMonkey, FireFox, Opera, iCab, Safari, OmniWeb. May work on IE.

    Claudio González
    Claudio GonzálezAuthor
    Brainiac
    September 4, 2009

    Philip, as I wrote above, I don't want workarounds, I want solutions. If this request is in the queue, as has been twice stated in this thread, then there is some hope that someday somebody will do something about it. So let us hope.


    By the way, why don't you join me in my almost solitary campaign of posting messages in Verdana?  You don't have to do it manually; you have just posted a better way.

    Claudio González
    Claudio GonzálezAuthor
    Brainiac
    September 4, 2009

    I have this code in a userContent.css file that I have setup for the Browser I use (SeaMonkey) and in FireFox (in their Chrome folders).

    The other web browser I named off I have set all of them to use a copy of this file I have on  a desktop director.


    When and if Adobe/Jive fixes the window width problem and the verdana type style I'll remove the userContent.css file.

    The solution is with aAdobe/Jive.and using the workarounds are temporay solutions, until they can be fixed.


    Philip, either there is something wrong with your code and/or setup, or we aren't understandig each other. I see your messages in Arial 10 in Firefox (Mac), and in Explorer and Safari (Win). My own messages are shown in Verdana 10 in these same three browsers.

    Jacob Bugge
    Jacob Bugge
    Community Expert
    September 4, 2009

    I have made the same decision as has Claudio.

    Curt Wrigley
    Curt Wrigley
    Inspiring
    September 4, 2009

    I believe this is already in the request queue. 

    While you wait for an official response as to the status, there is a local css style that will change it for you:

    http://userstyles.org/styles/17023

    Claudio González
    Claudio GonzálezAuthor
    Brainiac
    September 4, 2009

    Thanks for the information. Let's hope that the queue is not too long, and that it is getting shorter.


    In all my requests, I have asked for solutions, not for workarounds; and I have not applied any of the many published enhancements that would unclutter my screen and make it look nicer. Thanks for the tip anyway.

    A
    Anonymous
    September 4, 2009

    I agree with the points made here but I'm not going to waste time figuring out how to use custom css, if that's even possible with Chrome.  Obviously it was just another decision that the Jive design team's lead chimp hit on the dartboard.  I wonder what we would have gotten if his dart hit the wingdings font...

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