Barbara Dozetos wrote:
http://www.pcc.com/
One of the complainants is using FF on Fedora Core 3 (I have a
feeling this is a problem with the default font settings he has)
You didn't say what kind of problem...
That page has faulty proportional scaling, which make parts of it break
very easily if the browser-width and font-size are different from your
design-settings.
Setting "minimum font size" at some reasonable values, makes first the
left side menu, and then other parts of the page, look like a mess and
fall apart.
Basically: if a layout-method doesn't allow ordinary browser-options to
be used, then the layout-method is wrong. A few more tests with
different browser-width, font-resizing and different min-font-size
settings, will reveal a lot of weaknesses for that page.
It's all caused by the use of flexible/proportional layout, which
doesn't work well unless every possible browser-option in every possible
browser is taken into account during the design-phase.
How much the design should be able to handle before breaking is up to
you, but I think you should allow for some more.
I would suggest testing and correcting for: 9-24px min-font-size (FF's
scale), and 70-200% font-resizing in all browsers. That should cover
most needs.
regards
Georg
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http://www.gunlaug.no
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