Thom Brown wrote:
> >> But the benefit of the javascript hack was that we weren't setting a
> >> base font size for everything, we just bump up the relative font size
> >> for elements which are monospaced by default.
> >>
> >> There's pros and cons to both approaches. ?I'm not sure which one you
> >> guys prefer.
> >
> > If we are using Javascript, why can't we probe the font size and do
> > something reasonable, e.g. make monospace larger only if it smaller than
> > proportional?
>
> Hmm.. I don't know if the rendered font size is exposed to the DOM.
I quick search shows it as document.body.style.fontSize:
http://www.ehow.com/how_5924039_change-font-size-javascript.html
I believe you can query a fixed-width attribute to find its font size.
Would you like me to write some Javascript that illustrates that?
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