Which other methods of categorizing styles can you think of?

[denise]

I've just migrated Bug 3883: Add an Optimized-for-small-screens category to the Select Journal Style page and am opening a bug for additional other categories:

* optimized for large fonts
* high contrast
* low contrast
* streamlined/minimal distractions

What other categories can you think of that you would want to see? I'm mostly interested in things that are accessibility-needs related, but if you can think of other ways to categorize, I'd like to know.

Comments

[lapillus]

Maybe ones that use a fixed width for display? I know that was one of the things I was looking to replicate when I moved here from LJ.

[zvi]

We have fixed width styles? We used to be 100% fluid.

[lapillus]

We may not have any. But it a fixed maximum width for the reading area was one thing that I looked for (and didn't find). The fully fluid means that you you have a choice of reading long blocks of text in something that is significantly wider than is optimal (usually thought to be 60-80 characters) for easy reading or resizing your window. As someone who prefers keeping her browser maximized in a largish monitor this is a big annoyance when reading fic.

[ninetydegrees]

I don't think a fixed maximum width will ever be implemented because it wouldn't work for all users (80 characters in a 12px font doesn't take the same space as 80 characters in a 20px font so what value should you use?). Now that could be implemented as an option but that was kind of the point of implementing the side margins option, I think. I would actually love if we had a 'reading/article view' a little more elaborate than the light view with settings for margins, font sizes, leading, text and bkg colors.

[zvi]

If we implemented max width in ems, would that help?

[ninetydegrees]

It would but only to some extent. Implementing a max width to entries generally means that you get scrollbars because you always have images, videos, code and you have to do something with the overflow (cut it or scrollbar it and both options suck).