I would be grateful if someone could tell me what is the current best practice
for letting users change the font-size (e.g., by clicking on three 'a's of
different sizes to make different css files be used) on the web site. Is it
still a good idea, or do we go for the approach of using the
I am also interested.I have been asked to deliver it inside a
SharePoint site.
I would like to hear from anyone who has been there...done that
Thanks,
Ben
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 11:05 PM, designer
desig...@gwelanmor-internet.co.uk wrote:
I would be grateful if someone could
I would be grateful if someone could tell me what is the current best
practice for letting users change the font-size (e.g., by clicking on
three 'a's of different sizes to make different css files be used) on
the web site. Is it still a good idea, or do we go for the approach of
using the
I agree with James. Although, I find the best possible, all-around solution
is to use all of the above! If the user does not have JavaScript/cookies
enabled, then the user will use their browser, else they cannot view the
text in large size. If the user does have JavaScript/cookies enabled, then
James Leslie wrote:
Comes down to the 'give a man a fish/teach a man to fish' principle for
me. If you explain to the user how to use their browser settings to
change the text size then they can use that on any site.
Good in theory -- would you point out a few example sites that have
done
Comes down to the 'give a man a fish/teach a man to fish' principle
for me. If you explain to the user how to use their browser settings
to change the text size then they can use that on any site.
Good in theory -- would you point out a few example sites that have
done a good job of
Current best practice is (and imho has always been) using relative
font-sizes to make text resizing work the browser way in all browsers
including IE6/7.
In addition to that you could add a widget to resize text. In an ideal
situation this widget would also work without javascript (not too hard)
I find the text resizer concept (i.e. the 3 A's you mention) to be a poor
idea. Unless you are making those VERY large...more often than not, they
are unnoticed by those that need them because
a. those 3 A's are VERY tiny
b. those 3 A's are tucked away in some part of the site that will not be
