Font size option (user preference) does not work when defined explicitly in author-provided CSS

[danielweck]

Originally posted by
https://github.com/vincent-gros
at
readium/readium-js-viewer#47

When the CSS file including in the EPUB file has explicit font size values like:
.medium { font-size: medium; }
The font size change option doesn't work.
This issue seems to be related to some functions in lib/ReaderSetingsDialog.js.
To see the problem, I made a sample, avaiable here.

[edas]

One possible fix is : each time the user change the font size and each time we load a chapter, we iterate through all CSS rules to find all font-size [xx-small,x-small,small,medium,large,x-large,xx-large] and replace them by the corresponding rem value :

absolute value	rem value
xx-small	0.5625rem
x-small	0.6250rem
small	0.8125rem
medium	1rem
large	1.125rem
x-large	1.5rem
xx-large	2rem

However, this won't be perfect. If there is a dynamically loaded CSS or a script changing a style attribute after we parse the CSS rules, these sizes will stay as-is.

[mickael-menu-mantano]

Another solution would be to use – when available – the text-size-adjust
CSS property, instead of changing directly the font size.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/text-size-adjust

An example working on iOS and probably Android:
epubDocument.body.style.webkitTextSizeAdjust = "200%";

However it seems to be only available on mobile devices, but maybe there is
an equivalent for desktops.

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On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 3:51 PM, Éric D. notifications@github.com wrote:

One possible fix is : each time the user change the font size and each
time we load a chapter, we iterate through all CSS rules to find all
font-size [xx-small,x-small,small,medium,large,x-large,xx-large] and
replace them by the corresponding rem value :
absolute value rem value xx-small 0.5625rem x-small 0.6250rem small
0.8125rem medium 1rem large 1.125rem x-large 1.5rem xx-large 2rem

However, this won't be perfect. If there is a dynamically loaded CSS or a
script changing a style attribute after we parse the CSS rules, these
sizes will stay as-is.

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[danielweck]

Also see Bugzilla:
https://app.devzing.com/Readium/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22

[edas]

Hi. I am afraid not to have an account on the bugzilla, and I don't see how to create one. Could you help me on that ?

[danielweck]

Could you please explain why you would need a Bugzilla account?
(development issues are tracked on GitHub) Regards, Daniel

On Monday, July 14, 2014, Éric D. notifications@github.com wrote:

Hi. I am afraid not to have an account on the bugzilla, and I don't see
how to create one. Could you help me on that ?

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[edas]

I don't know, as I don't know what is on the bugzilla.

You posted a reference link that I couldn't follow and that seemed to be related to the issue or its resolution. I don't have any other information : I had the assumption that the work continued there, but I may be wrong (as I don't see anything on the bugzilla).

[danielweck]

Ah, apologies :)
(my email thread doesn't show this part, I had to go on GitHub to be
reminded of the link you are referring to)

Please do not worry about the Bugzilla link, this is for internal tracking
purposes only. The issues are recorded and processed in GitHub.

Sorry for the confusion.
Regards, Daniel

On Monday, July 14, 2014, Éric D. notifications@github.com wrote:

I don't know, as I don't know what is on the bugzilla.

You posted a reference link that I couldn't follow and that seemed to be
related to the issue or its resolution. I don't have any other information
: I had the assumption that the work continued there, but I may be wrong
(as I don't see anything on the bugzilla).

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[danielweck]

I added a comment in the Git diff, as unfortunately some text elements are not resizing. See:
259126f

[danielweck]

Follow-up of the above comment (so we can track commits for this issue):
afabcf1

[danielweck]

Unless I am mistaken, this issue was fixed by @ryanackley 's code:
https://github.com/readium/readium-shared-js/blob/develop/js/helpers.js#L242

Helpers.UpdateHtmlFontSize = function ($epubHtml, fontSize) {

    var factor = fontSize / 100;
    var win = $epubHtml[0].ownerDocument.defaultView;
    var $textblocks = $('p, div, span, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, li, blockquote, td, pre', $epubHtml);
    var originalLineHeight;


    // need to do two passes because it is possible to have nested text blocks.
    // If you change the font size of the parent this will then create an inaccurate
    // font size for any children.
    for (var i = 0; i < $textblocks.length; i++) {
        var ele = $textblocks[i],
            fontSizeAttr = ele.getAttribute('data-original-font-size');

        if (!fontSizeAttr) {
            var style = win.getComputedStyle(ele);
            var originalFontSize = parseInt(style.fontSize);
            originalLineHeight = parseInt(style.lineHeight);

            ele.setAttribute('data-original-font-size', originalFontSize);
            // getComputedStyle will not calculate the line-height if the value is 'normal'. In this case parseInt will return NaN
            if (originalLineHeight) {
                ele.setAttribute('data-original-line-height', originalLineHeight);
            }
        }
    }

    // reset variable so the below logic works. All variables in JS are function scoped.
    originalLineHeight = 0;
    for (var i = 0; i < $textblocks.length; i++) {
        var ele = $textblocks[i],
            fontSizeAttr = ele.getAttribute('data-original-font-size'),
            lineHeightAttr = ele.getAttribute('data-original-line-height'),
            originalFontSize = Number(fontSizeAttr);

        if (lineHeightAttr) {
            originalLineHeight = Number(lineHeightAttr);
        }
        else {
            originalLineHeight = 0;
        }

        $(ele).css("font-size", (originalFontSize * factor) + 'px');
        if (originalLineHeight) {
            $(ele).css("line-height", (originalLineHeight * factor) + 'px');
        }

    }
    $epubHtml.css("font-size", fontSize + "%");

};

Closing.