On 06/03/04 14:02 Maxwell Balmain apparently typed:` > I am still quite new at this. I finally caved in and purchased a > Windows XP system so that I actually see designs in IE6 on Windows > ( I use Mac OS X). ... > I now notice a few things with one of the sites I have been working > on: http://www.rubybluestudio.com > ... http://www.rubybluestudio.com/gallery_intro.html
> Another thing that bugs me. Not sure if this is a css issue or > something I am missing by being a first time PC owner: The text on > these pages looks crummy: thin and jagged. Quite obvious when I Have you enabled ClearType? > compare pages on my Mac. The display is new and running at a high res > etc and images look fine. I have noticed this with text issue with > other sites as well. Any thoughts? What you see may be normal for tiny 12px text on PC hardware. It gets radically better as resolution is increased, but to take advantage of high resolution the text size needs to be larger as well. Here's a screenshot of your page on my Linux system: http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/SS/maxwb1.jpg Notice how tiny your P text is compared to my default and even compared to my browser UI text. It's much much too small to read, besides being ugly. By sizing text in px as you have means high resolution IE users cannot use their text resizer widget successfully, and so cannot use your page at all unless they know the deep secret of how to disable your text styles entirely. This amounts to a serious accessibility problem. Have a read here: http://www.useit.com/alertbox/designmistakes.html http://www.xs4all.nl/~sbpoley/webmatters/fontsize.html http://psychology.wichita.edu/optimalweb/text.htm http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/auth/accessibility.html http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/auth/defaultsize.html http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/auth/fflinelength.html http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/auth/userdefaultbased.html http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/auth/Font/font-size-quotes.html http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/auth/line-height-inherit.html (re DL's response) http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/auth/Font/fonts-face-commons.html (ditto) If you're using the default 800x600 resolution and 96 DPI on a CRT, you should bump the resolution up to take maximum advantage of your display's capability, at least for testing. From the chart at http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/auth/dpip.html pick a resolution that at least minimally exceeds what the dot pitch of your display can resolve, which will give you the maximum quality the CRT is able to produce. If using a flat panel display, be sure to match the resolution setting to the display's native resolution. If you're using a large display, you'll probably need to adjust the system DPI. You can use http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/auth/dpi.html to try to get it close and http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/auth/PointsDemo.html to test. -- "Blessed are they whose ways are blameless, who walk according to the law of the Lord." Psalm 119:11 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/auth/auth ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7b2 testing hub -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
