font-size too small

colak · Today 06:50:52

Following my resolving the IG issue as described on forum.textpattern.com/viewtopic.php?id=52787, and after realising that the “nice try” error is served by txp, I just thought that I should mention that the font-size used for that (and possibly other) txp triggered blocks is too small for mobile devices.

phiw13 · Today 07:52:46

I think that is just a straight output from the header and treated by the browser as an oldschool html page. It is set at default browser font-family/font—size (Times, 16px). What is lacking is the viewport meta tag that would scale the page. Now it just is set to a “desktop browser” size.

generated html (but if you view source, it just shows “Nice try.”):

<htm><head></head><body>Nice try.</body></html>

Try with this URL (works with a desktop browser):

https://emps.l-c-n.com/site-notes/sitenotes/emps-design-patterns-style-guide?66a29b7257a0af31269b1f5f52c247c2f83b18bf+66a29b7257a0af31269b1f5f52c247c2f83b18bf+66a29b7257a0af31269b1f5f52c247c2f83b18bf_PAZnRzaAPs8DtleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZA8xMjQwMjQ1NzQyODc0MTQAAafl1JK196eNmoXAFo04FyvDOSSQj-hIYXA9JWwUdkQu-ywof2jYqnrAty_soA_aem_0rzS-didWHbO7vJT-rzn_Qc247c2f83b18bf+66a29b7257a0af31269b1f5f52c247c2f83b18bf_PAZnb18bf_PAZnRzaAPs8DtleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZA8xMjQwMjQ1NzQyODc0MTQAAafl1JK196eNmoXAFo04FyvDOSSQj-hIYXA9JWwUdkQu-ywof2jYqnrA

Textpattern source, I think: github.com/textpattern/textpattern/blob/66a29b7257a0af31269b1f5f52c247c2f83b18bf/textpattern/lib/txplib_misc.php#L6608

colak · Today 07:59:07

Hi Philippe,
The font-size is small to me even when using the desktop browser but I definitely had an issue in instagram because the text was on the top left corner which I couldn’t see for a while. All I could see was a white page as my eyes are not what they used to be.

I have a forbidden page served by htaccess for our site and gave it a large enough font. Txp generated errors like this should be more visible, if anything, to alert us to fix them.

phiw13 · Today 08:13:27

colak wrote #342558:

Hi Philippe,
The font-size is small to me even when using the desktop browser but I definitely had an issue in instagram because the text was on the top left corner which I couldn’t see for a while. All I could see was a white page as my eyes are not what they used to be.

I think some Firefox versions on some Android small-screen devices will respect the OS font-size and output something readable without page scaling. Maybe.

Blame (mobile) browsers for that… (and I agree, even on a desktop browser, I have a hard time to try to read that browser default font-size). Without an appropriate viewport meta, they treat the page as “desktop” size and scale it down

I have a forbidden page served by htaccess for our site and gave it a large enough font. Txp generated errors like this should be more visible, if anything, to alert us to fix them.

Yes, ideally it should trigger the error_default.txp page template.

Last edited by phiw13 (Today 08:16:45)

colak · Today 16:55:09

phiw13 wrote #342557:

generated html (but if you view source, it just shows “Nice try.”):

<htm><head></head><body>Nice try.</body></html>...

That is indeed interesting! On my FF/mac when I view the source, I just see Nice try. on line 1, and no html tags.

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