> Good points. One problem I still see, however, is that if you use a  
> fixed width for text at say, 500px, then on your high res setup the  
> text is impossibly small, and enlarging the text manually creates  
> too-large text in too small an area.

Not necessarily. Using a commonly used example, 10px Geneva/Verdana  
is easily legible to people with reasonable vision when using 1600px  
on a suitable monitor. Take a look at http://www.jungfrau-zeitung.ch/ 
artikel/?cq_*5a5b87e9=ivxPU=87988m0d where the main content column is  
about 450px (I think!). That's easily legible for me on a 20" monitor  
at  1600x1200; if I want to be daft and set 1600 x 1200 on a 17"  
monitor - which is a good way to get eye strain anyway :-) - then  
I'll increase the text size in the browser. The layout here is  
"flexible" enough and planned to accommodate zooming up to about 250  
- 300% before the layout starts to break, which is, I would imagine,  
plenty for people who have poorer eyesight. The point is, if I as a  
user have a non-standard setup, then  I should be able to choose to  
increase the text size myself if I want to, rather than have a larger  
text forced on me.

Regards
Mark Howells
www.permanenttourist.ch


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