Closed Bug 47275 Opened 25 years ago Closed 23 years ago

`Text Zoom' should also change size of widgets in document

Categories

(Core :: Layout: Form Controls, defect, P5)

Product:
Core
Component:
Layout: Form Controls
Type:
defect

Tracking

()

Status:
VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 62384
Milestone:
Future

People

(Reporter: dhindman, Assigned: rods)

References

Details

Nightly build 2000080120 for Linux. My monitor is 21". The resolution is 1600x1200. I am not visually impaired (that is, my vision is normal for a 48 year old.) My opinion is that the View/Text Size/Largest magnification setting should be increased by about 15 per cent to accommodate normal middle aged users. I think a substantial number of visually impaired users could be accommodated by adding an "Extra Large" setting with perhaps 30% greater magnification than the present Largest setting. It would also be helpful if the View/Text Size control could influence the text that appears in the widgets. Selecting the "Largest" setting seems to have no effect on the text in the widgets. Ideally there would be a single scaling control for all text. View/Text Size seems like a good candidate to me. Right now I count five different places for controlling text scaling, and I'm not exactly sure how they interact.
This should be Severity: enhancement, Priority:P4, and OS/Platform:All. Confirming and changing those fields to what they should be.
Severity: minor → enhancement
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
OS: Linux → All
Priority: P3 → P4
Hardware: PC → All
The `Text Size' submenu is very new, and is still being worked on. You've reported two bugs here. The problem with the range of sizes being too limited is already planned in bug 37940. So I'm narrowing this bug to deal just with the issue of text size affecting widgets as well as text. Blake, would this be your department, or would it be a Style System thing?
Severity: enhancement → minor
Priority: P4 → P3
Summary: View/Text Size might need a little more range → `Text Size' should also change size of widgets in document
Tomer, Priority is up to the assignee (or his/her manager, where such a person exists) to set. And as far as I'm concerned, an accessibility problem (which this is) is a bug, not an enhancement.
Reassigning from bdonohoe to hangas
Assignee: bdonohoe → hangas
We need to be able to control the size of fonts in our chome. Hyatt will someday provide us with a preference for this feature, and when he does we will fix the skins.
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
Target Milestone: --- → Future
Such a preference already exists on Windows (the Display control panel) and Mac OS (the Appearance control panel). So it would only need to implemented on X.
See also bug 34271, same problem for changing point size of fonts in prefs.
Depends on: 62384
Chaning the qa contact on these bugs to me. MPT will be moving to the owner of this component shortly. I would like to thank him for all his hard work as he moves roles in mozilla.org...Yada, Yada, Yada...
QA Contact: mpt → zach
updating to new owner. sorry for the spam.
Assignee: hangas → mpt
Status: ASSIGNED → NEW
<style> INPUT { font-family:sans-serif; font-size:10px; } </style> <HTML><BODY><FORM><INPUT TYPE='text' SIZE='3' VALUE='123'></FORM></BODY></HTML> Code above has bad rendering. Input widget is bigger than it should be, according to font type/size.
*** Bug 77339 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Blocks: 54504
Ok. There's no reason for form controls to be treated any differently from other elements of the page as far as zooming is concerned. So, all form controls -- text fields, buttons, popup menus, radio buttons, checkboxes -- should scale with the zoom factor specified by `View' > `Text Size'. Page authors should be able to change the size of text in text fields, buttons, popup menus, and other controls, but they should not be able to change the size of radio buttons or checkboxes. I have no idea whether any of this currently works or not, since I don't have a `Text Size' submenu to test with. --> HTML Form Controls.
Assignee: mpt → rods
Component: User Interface Design → HTML Form Controls
QA Contact: zach → vladimire
Severity: minor → enhancement
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
Priority: P3 → P4
Severity: enhancement → minor
Depends on: 105012
I believe this is working fine in the current builds. Reporter, can you verify this? When I use text size to make a page bigger, the entry fields, buttons, etc. get bigger as well.
I've just had a go at this. Only text areas support less than 100% zoom. Combo boxes zoom to the correct width, but the height is wrong.
Priority: P4 → P5
Summary: `Text Size' should also change size of widgets in document → `Text Zoom' should also change size of widgets in document
This bug seems to track only one issue now, and that issue's main bug is really bug 62384 ... cleaning up this weird dependency tree of dups. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 62384 ***
Status: ASSIGNED → RESOLVED
Closed: 23 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
I would have used "worksforme" to avoid screwing up the mostfreq list.
verifying
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
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