> Warren Cardinal
> if resizing text breaks the design, why the hell allow it?
If people can't read your text, why the hell put it online?
> Case in point is all these "cool" flash sites out there
> that even I can't read, they are so tiny.
And that's a good thing?
> Typography is an art too - print designers can use type to
> add to the design - we can't??
Yes you can, but - unlike print - users can and will change the
size of the text, resize their windows, change resolution, etc
Good design takes these different situations into account and
tries to find a solution that works at least acceptably in those
cases.
> It's a tool, not a rule.
It's the nature of the medium.
Patrick
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