I confess I have a poor typing abilty and a poorer attitude about it - somewhat “reckless / careless” mistakes tend to always happen.
I have the habit of typing a post giving it adequate composing effort, posting it, proof-reading it,
rinse repeat until satisfied.
I realize now that the size of text in the editor is somewhat more difficult for me to read, or is it the contrast…
I find the rendered post to be more readable.
I think what I have done is that I developed this habit to compensate for my visual ability (or lack thereof);
Maybe there’s a way I can config Firefox to have a minimum font size / adjust contrast?
But more often, I lose what I’ve typed, so it’s better (at least for me) to type separately in a text editor and when I’m close, copy-paste. I’ve lose what I’ve typed here I dunno how many times, and often I just gave up.
Another trick for reading is to ctrl-a (select all) the text.
The colours may either be set by the web author (on a web page via CSS) or by the browser and the windowing theme (for example, Firefox on Ubuntu with the “human” theme, which is browns and oranges, usually highlights text with an orange background and white text).
I also find the default size in the editor too small - and for PMs, it’s even worse.
One of the things I most like about Firefox is that it remembers zoom preferences between sites. So I can use Ctrl + to increase the font size for SitePoint, and it will render larger every time I visit, but other sites will display at their “normal” size, unless I manually alter them, too.
But as far as I’m aware, Chrome doesn’t allow you to zoom text only. I don’t want to zoom images, too, but every browser apart from Firefox now seems to do that.
