On Wednesday 2006-07-12 00:44 +0000, Ian Hickson wrote: > If your argument against this proposal is that it is not possible to > select a zoom factor that will make both medium and small be acceptable, > then that is possible. I don't have the data to argue that.
I think that's one argument; I also think that the range is wider than what would be 13px-16px in your proposal; I think it's probably more like 10px-16px, which is a pretty wide range. But the real problem I'm trying to fix is that whatever we do, authors try to get around it by making what happens in the default configuration be what matches their personal preference (which, given young authors, usually means small fonts). So, to solve that, we need to: * make it really easy for users to change the size (which makes authors care less about the default configuration), and * make it impossible for authors to say "I want my entire page to be smaller than normal" (to make it much harder for authors to work around what the user wants). Your proposal, if adopted by a majority browser, might even make the range of typical font sizes used on the Web even wider. One of the likely effects of your proposal on authors will be for them to try to make fonts even smaller, since they'll see how huge (sometimes they call it "ugly") the fonts on their pages are for typical users, and therefore specify something smaller so that their page shows up with smaller fonts than other pages. And even if the range given your proposal is 13px-16px (and I doubt it's that narrow), that's still a pretty wide range, especially for users with poor vision who need to make the 13px large enough to be readable without making the Web pages at 16px require too much scrolling. My proposal attempts to collapse the range to as close to zero-width as possible. -David -- L. David Baron <URL: http://dbaron.org/ > Technical Lead, Layout & CSS, Mozilla Corporation
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