Gunlaug Sørtun wrote:
> snak detek+0r wrote:
> 
[...]
>>> Index: Minimum font-size 24px breaks the h-nav and does a little 
>>> number on the text in right column.

>> i'm not sure what you mean by this? i don't have any fonts nearly 
>> that big. and i also couldn't see what you're talking about in 
>> ff/chrome. today i got ahold of ie6, and still didn't see it.

> 
> David is referring to a browser setting - 'minimum font size' option 
> - that some end-users set to resize text on _all_ sites... 
> <http://www.gunlaug.no/contents/wd_1_03_04.html> 
> <http://www.gunlaug.no/contents/wd_additions_37.html> ...without 
> having to bother with resizing or zooming on individual sites.
> 
> Observations across the web indicates that few web designers know 
> about, or test for, this option. The result is that many sites break
>  under the stress of browsers' 'minimum font size'.
> 
[...]

FWIW - I have set a modest minimum font size of 12px on my browsers. My
primary browser, Opera 9.6 on Mac, scales up _all_ fonts on pages that
have the seemingly popular 62.5% font-size set on BODY. It amazes me how
many pages break with that slight increase. :(

Cordially,
David
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