----- Original Message ----- From: "Kathy Wheeler" <kat...@home.albury.net.au> To: "CSS discuss" <css-d@lists.css-discuss.org> Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2009 8:05 PM Subject: [css-d] Font size dilemma
>I know the mantra: let the user decide, set font-size to 100% but ... Stet > Looking at major general news sites, popular public blogging etc > sites, they ALL seem to have fonts set much smaller. I'm nearly 50 with reasonably good close vision. What you have to realize is some of us run very fine screen resolutions on small monitors. I run 1400 x 1050 on a 17" monitor at work. Try text at 62.5% default on that! I also think you'll find that font size is the least of the usability issues on some of these sites...excess flash, too many ads, bad nav layout ad nauseum. > And what "common techniques" are in use? Firefox has at least 2 > different Zoom options with very different results, then there's > minimum font size ... what are those who alter their browsers > actually using? Most of us are inimately familiar with how to zoom our browser of choice. IE7 and FF use CTL+, Opera uses +. It ain't that difficult. >What should we be checking by? As much as possible. Old boxes are great to set up Linux and Win 98/IE6 on. I develop at 1280px horizontal, make sure it doesn't look kindergarden at 1024px horizontal, and the layout doesn't break at +/- 2 zoom levels. Cheers, Peter www.fatpawdesign.com Win XP/SP3, IE7, FF3, O9 ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] 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/
