On: MiniDisc Hacking

[webdevver]

very strange website design, font size seems to be a function of the window pixel width. changing the browser zoom level doesn't seem to do anything, so i'm stuck with a very large font size on my widescreen

[notRobot → webdevver]

I agree, it is kinda weird. For anyone curious, the relevant css property on the site is:

    body {
      font-size: 2vw;
    }

This sets font size to be 2% of the viewport width, which means if the text is too big you can try resizing the browser window to be narrower to make the text smaller.

[myself248 → notRobot]

My god. HTML was a mistake.

[notRobot → myself248]

If I draw something poorly does that mean pencils were a mistake?

[physhster → webdevver]

I, too, was very confused by this.

[joecool1029 → webdevver]

Yeah, you're not kidding! I don't think it was their intent to force 'boomer mode' text.

I had to manually edit the stylesheet to change fontsize from 2vw to 1vw and it looks fine (reader mode is a workaround too). My guess is they did this as a shitty workaround for high PPI screens that run 200% scaling, but on more common pixel density screens we get beachball sized text.