Le 21 déc. 2012 à 06:17, Tom Livingston <[email protected]> a écrit :

> Is sizing text in pixels **still** considered a no-no?

It is still not a good, user friendly idea. Control freak designers will 
disagree…

> I've seen sites
> recently that used px for font units and even in Chrome (latest Mac and PC)
> the text did not scale when font sizes were increased from default.

Do you mean: the user changes the default setting of the browser (as in 
increase font-size) [*], but the text-size of the page doesn't change? That is 
expected if you set the font-size in px. Setting font-size that way does 
absolutely not take into consideration user/browser settings. That is one of 
the reasons using px for font-size is a bad idea. The user should still be able 
to use the zoom functions in the browser, though.

[*] unless the user also sets a minimum font-size. But even then, the text 
doesn't scale proportionally.

> Is this
> becoming the norm because of zoom?

Completely unrelated.

> I ask because of a recent run-in with a layout that would
> make accommodating font-scaling difficult.

The layout needs changing. Remember there are more and more ‘Internet Enabled 
™’ of devices out there, beyond the desktop computer, from tiny iPods and 
mobile phones to giant televisions screens.

Philippe
--
Philippe Wittenbergh
http://l-c-n.com




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