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Originally Posted by Rizla
I see what you mean. Amazon has visually "hard-coded" the font sizes choice in the UI. It's an ugly implementation that makes expandability problematic. Amazon would have to alter the UI significantly to add a gradation, or remove one of the other ones. Ick. Poor design, that. Ick. It really is ugly from a design point of view.
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Originally Posted by Rizla
You're right about the code. All that is necessary is to add an extra number(s) in the existing font-change UI option. As you say, that number will be passed along to the existing font rendering process.
The problem lies in the lack of space available to insert another AA in the font-choice UI. They could fit an extra one in there, but it would be tight and ugly. Alternatively they could just put a big or small 'A' instead of both. Ick. The whole thing is horrible. They should just change it to an increment and decrement "button." It seems it's too much work for them.
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That is certainly one possible reason, another is that as twowheels posited, the sizes are assumed in the backend as well as the UI.
And Amazon would be far from the only people to have a clumsy codebase which lacks flexibility -- it is somewhat of a tradition.