<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr">Just registering my agreement on this. It would be great to be able to make the text in individual HTML messages bigger.</div><div dir="ltr"><br>On Aug 18, 2019, at 7:17 PM, leo <<a href="mailto:mailmate@halloleo.hailmail.net">mailmate@halloleo.hailmail.net</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">
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<p dir="auto">The two sutblties you mention are correct. But I disgree with your assesment that it is not unraseable to leave html as is. Even browsers can change the overall size of standard HTML!</p>
<p dir="auto">It would be <strong><em>very</em></strong> helpful for people with <em>slightly</em> deteriorating eye-sight to be able to nudge up the font sizes in an email without resorting to underlying accessibility features of the OS.</p>
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<p dir="auto">On 19 Aug 2019, at 5:07, Bill Cole wrote:</p>
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<div style="white-space:normal"><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #5855D5; color:#5855D5; margin:0 0 5px; padding-left:5px"><p dir="auto">On 18 Aug 2019, at 13:42, Roger Bohn wrote:<br>
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<blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #5855D5; color:#00AFCC; margin:0 0 5px; padding-left:5px; border-left-color:#00AFCC"><p dir="auto">I have been trying and asking for years. It is possible to change fonts of metadata like subject and the interface. But I have not found a way to enlarge the text itself. With my eyes, that is a major annoyance.</p>
</blockquote><p dir="auto">The command-key and menu commands somehow work for me, given 2 subtleties:<br>
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1. The body area is active, i.e. it's the last region clicked.<br>
2. The body is not a rendering of an HTML part that specifies a font size.<br>
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#2 is not an unreasonable design choice. There's no universal need to specify font size in HTML. It is perfectly reasonable and common in mail software to compose HTML mail without an explicit font size, as MailMate does when generating HTML, so when an HTML message does specify a font size it is a sign that the font size is important and should be honored.<br>
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That makes rational sense, although it is not compatible with how some composers of HTML behave. Unfortunately, messages with overspecified HTML also tend to have inadequate plain text alternative parts or none at all, so while "Prefs->Viewer->Message View->Prefer plain text" will usually make it possible to adjust font size. as a practical matter that is likely to be inadequate. Hopefully at some point Benny will replicate what Safari does to zoom text to have mercy on old guys like me...<br>
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Bill Cole<br>
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