I absolutely know your standpoint, fully understand the needs and
reasons, but I still think that nowadays without SVG support and more
powerful CSS capabilities in means of raster elements flexibility
without compromising the document with elements acting only as a hook
for presentational constructions it is pretty hard to cope with the fact
of disproportional scaling of vector/rendered and raster elements.
A web browser viewport is a naturally fluid and adaptable
space that most designers refuse to or don't know to embrace.
You see it only from the academic/technical/purist point of view. Part
of the content, message, presentation is the way how it is presented, be
it the layout, proportions between the parts of content serving
usability and IA needs or raster elements accompanying those. I hope you
really do not treat graphics and design as the same, because it is not
the same.
fluid web designs rather than artificially constrained print designs
hosted on the web.
Could you try to think more about that, not only that superficially?
grand total of 0 elements sized in px or absolute units.
Sizing is one thing, I never mentioned there's a problem with relative
sizing of elements. The issue I'm talking about is the broken relation
between those sized elements and the possibility of having a raster
object inside them which isn't scaled.
This is what I thought the first time I saw your screenshots a few years
ago - your system's DPI is ill from my point of view because the system
is not ready to scale everything - it only enlarges the text but leaves
the rest untouched - for me the system is unusable then; the ergonomics
is gone. And it's the same on the web:
Accessibility is not about having big text. It is about universal needs.
Why is your need of having everything fluid without the relation to the
fixed (due to the DPI) rest more important than my need of having
everything scaled in the same ratio with the layout keeping the same
proportions?
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Jan Brasna :: www.alphanumeric.cz | www.janbrasna.com | www.wdnews.net
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