This is what I thought. I do still see px a lot. As far as Chrome goes, is visited a site, saw that it uses px, changed my Chrome settings to "very large" in preferences but the site font size was unchanged. Safari, with "scale font size only" set, the text of the site scaled up.
Thanks Philippe. On Thursday, December 20, 2012, Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: > > Le 21 déc. 2012 à 06:17, Tom Livingston <[email protected] <javascript:;>> > 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 > > > > > -- Tom Livingston | Senior Interactive Developer | Media Logic | ph: 518.456.3015x231 | fx: 518.456.4279 | mlinc.com ______________________________________________________________________ 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/
