From: "Jesper Brunholm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

> You do not have those problems when testing your site in big fonts, 
> as you've already seen it with medium font size! But let my granddad 
> enter the site (he's the one who needs the big font, and might have 
> it as default in his browser), and you'll see one user gone faster 
> than you can visualise the content that he's missing off screen on 
> the horizontal scrollbar.
>
> I'll definitely second Georg here, em scaling is best when used to 
> keep content inside the window on at least one axis (and, just for 
> "tradition keeps the customer"'s sake - make that the horizontal 
> axis :-) )

Traditions that count are dying. Horizontal scrollbars as "tradition" 
is trite. I could be closer to your grandfather's age than to yours, 
and my vision is no longer perfect. Constraining content to the 
horizontal viewport over the ability to actually read comfortably is 
obsessive behavior to me. Sounds like a phobia to me :-) Get your 
Grand Dad a bigger monitor and he'll be happier by far.

I believe the thread is dead. The vote offlist seems favorable, though 
:-)

Al Sparber
PVII
http://www.projectseven.com

"Designing with CSS is sometimes like barreling down a crumbling 
mountain road at 90 miles per hour secure in the knowledge that 
repairs are scheduled for next Tuesday".


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