On 06/08/24 14:57 (GMT-0500) Collin Davis apparently typed: > On Aug 24, 2006, at 1:36 PM, Felix Miata wrote:
>> . How many active, in use, non-educational CSS files can you >> find on my site where main content text is set to something other than >> the user's default size and family? I count 0 > Source of http://mrmazda.no-ip.com > body {color: #5080C8; > background-color: #FEFEFE; > text-align: center; > font-family: sans-serif; > margin: .5em;} > Where is the line drawn? You've just overridden a user's possible > font color, alignment and font family preferences. Not really. That page is 4,549 bytes, of which 1,989 bytes are CSS. 937 bytes make up the rest of <head>, leaving <body> at 1,623 bytes, including markup. With markup removed, there remains a total of 411 characters, including spaces, line feeds, and carriage returns, none of which are contained within <p> </p>. 251 of those 411 bytes make up a disclaimer in the footer, and 16 are unavoidably contained in two images. The 144 character balance, including whitespace, is title text, and link text. So, even though the CSS body rule does specify "sans-serif", and high contrat colors, and text alignment, there isn't any _content_ text of the type I meant for it to apply to. It's a foyer or mini-portal page, entirely the kind of "content" one would expect to have "design" styles applied to. A title, three main links, and one minor link in this case make up the "content". > Surely if every user's preferences are so precious there should be no > author styles applied whatsoever, because there is the *possibility* > that it may vary somehow from the user's preference. I don't think I've seen anyone in the thread say implicitly or explicitly that no author styles should be used. That extreme position is nothing if not ludicrous. The difference in actual positions is one of degree of restraint, the difference between invoking a rule for every possibility (maximum "control"), and dressing only the things that need dressing to give a page/site a distinctive flavor (far less control). Lest we forget, the vast majority of web page visitors are using *personal* computers. There's no reason a good web page design can't be a blend of both author and visitor personalization. -- "Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up." Galatians 6:9 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/ ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
