On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 11:03 AM, Lukie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Not everyone has perfect vision, and many of your potential customers > may indeed be blind. If you build your site using relative font units > and percentage based widths for common elements, you'll already be > making life a lot easier for a portion of your visitors. Maybe even > many of them.
Resizable layouts don't help blind people since they can't see the browser, but regarding low-vision users, which is where I think you were going with this, I've noticed the newer browsers do full-layout resizing when increasing the font-size. So for example, if I use standard blueprint to create a 800 px wide layout and in the middle of the layout is a 400px wide image and a 22px headline and I increase the font size* then the layout may increase to 900px wide, the image to 450px wide and the heading 25px high. The measurements are made up but the interesting thing is that proportionally they stay them same when I've actually tested it. *I've tested this in IE7 and FF3 and get similar results in both. For examples of this in FF3 see: http://code.bearfruit.org/~matt/tmp/resize/ This seems to change the way we design pages for accessibility. At this point, I'm starting to feel like the only reason to make fluid layouts is to keep people who have very wide monitors set at a low resolution (under 100ppi) who use their browser maximized from complaining. Considering the difference in ppi and total available pixels on desktop/laptop computers and handheld devices I don't think fluid layouts help, instead you need diff stylesheets for desktop and small screen devices to properly serve them. -- Matthew Nuzum newz2000 on freenode --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Blueprint CSS" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/blueprintcss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
