I've notice that the main gurus of this mailing-list are always telling us: "pay attention to user options and let the browser do the math". Those are not totally separate statements I believe, but, about the user options, even if the most of the users don't even know about the font-size option, it's true that if the user makes the letters bigger on the browser by default, it's not a good idea to force-it down with CSS. I'm starting to get (I hope it right) that CSS layout is not doing what a (not good) designer tells you to do to make it fancy, the major point will be, to make it easy readable, accessible and adaptive.
If we use font-size: small; or medium; or large; etc. we allow the user to have is preferences preserved. But, if we use em or px as a measure unit, it seems that the default browser options concerning the font-size, are not respected. Is this correct? In the other end, the user could also "arm himself". I mean, with a peculiar font-style (or other) choice, not attachable to accessible options, the user may be ruin it's site experience. (the design was made to help, more then to be fancy, fancy was a "way to" help, not a "end" by himself but, today, it seems more and more like a "end" by himself). Anyway the question here is: what is the middle point? How do we, css newbies, start learning what is, and what isn't, the middle point. Or, putting on another way: What are the Golden Options that allow us to 1) preserve user preferences; 2) Not letting the design experience (that should also be for the user) be ruined with some default options that the user may have? Ideally, maybe leaving the font-size to the small, medium, larger etc measures will be good because, even if the user changes is small-medium-larger ways of showing using the default text options on the browser, they preserve their relative state, so the medium will be always bigger than the small, and the larger bigger than both. It will not cause the desired effect in the audience if the user changes the default letter for example, but since the relative relations are preserved, maybe we could not say that the layout is ruined, can we? Is this the best scenario for having both? Regards, Márcio ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
