[mythtv] Mythweb font size and color

[Chris Petersen]

> IMHO the only time that point size should be used in CSS is when
> formatting for print.  Specifying a point size for use in a web browser is
> no different than specifying a pixel size.  What looks good on one monitor
> may not look good on someone else's.

pixel-size fonts don't render the same in every browser, either.  I 
don't mind switching back to pixel heights -- I've just noticed that 
most OS's seem to have a better job rendering point-sizes into something 
readable (since most of them know that 9pt looks good, but 11px may not).

9pt font is *not* that small.  12 point font is HUGE.  The program 
listing font in mythweb is something like 9pt (or 11px -- forget if I 
updated it yet or not) and I still find it cramped at 1280x1024.

> I have configured Firefox so that the default font looks good on my
> monitor.  I can comfortably read anything that does not over-ride the font
> size.  Font that is slightly larger or slightly smaller is still easy to
> read.  But, by specifying a specific pixel size, my settings are being
> completely disregarded.  And, on my 1400x1050 14" laptop, it looks too
> small.

um, "point" should be a relational size.  If not, then it's a bug in 
firefox.  If you change the font size in firefox so that it's bigger or 
smaller, the browser is supposed to render all hard-coded fonts larger 
or smaller in relation to the default font size.  That's how galeon 
works, and how firefox works for me when I've tried it (I don't use it 
very often) -- if I "zoom" even the hard-coded fonts get bigger/smaller 
along with the rest of the text.

Thus, if your default font size is 9pt (down from the standard 12), and 
css says that something is 9pt, your browser would render it down around 
7pt (9 * 9/12).  it would be the exact same thing if I said the font was 
1.5em (or whatever), since it's all done according to the relation 
between your default font size and the browser's original default font size.

-Chris