Re: [css-d] font-size advice

2007-03-28 Thread Chris Ovenden
On 3/27/07, Gunlaug Sørtun [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are no definitive answers to anything on the web, there will always be an exception to any rule we care to make, that's what we have to live with, and work with. So lets all accept it and move on..

[css-d] font-size advice

2007-03-27 Thread Stephen Jungels
Greetings list, I've learned a lot by starting to read this list recently and now am trying my first question. Thanks for any help you are able to provide. After noticing that my site's text did not resize in IE 6 and reading some messages here, I took the advice at

Re: [css-d] font-size advice

2007-03-27 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
On Sun, 25 Mar 2007, Stephen Jungels wrote: Now I find that everything looks as expected in Firefox. In IE 6, the main content font-size is a little too large. It depends on matters of taste and eyesight etc. whether it is too large, but it's definitely larger than on Firefox, with factory

Re: [css-d] font-size advice

2007-03-27 Thread Chris Ovenden
I'm afraid that question has been discussed to death in this list and elsewhere. I'd say you just have to decide between usability and right size, since usability means that there is no right size. Surely the right size, or a t least the right initial size, is the same size as (most) other

Re: [css-d] font-size advice

2007-03-27 Thread jeffrey morin
On 3/27/07, Chris Ovenden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm afraid that question has been discussed to death in this list and elsewhere. I'd say you just have to decide between usability and right size, since usability means that there is no right size. Surely the right size, or a t least

Re: [css-d] font-size advice

2007-03-27 Thread Felix Miata
On 2007/03/25 23:42 (GMT-0400) Stephen Jungels apparently typed: [this post arrived here only moments ago] I've learned a lot by starting to read this list recently and now am trying my first question. Thanks for any help you are able to provide. After noticing that my site's text did not

Re: [css-d] font-size advice

2007-03-27 Thread Rick Pasotto
On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 02:28:33PM +0100, Chris Ovenden wrote: I'm afraid that question has been discussed to death in this list and elsewhere. I'd say you just have to decide between usability and right size, since usability means that there is no right size. Surely the right size, or

Re: [css-d] font-size advice

2007-03-27 Thread Felix Miata
On 2007/03/27 14:28 (GMT+0100) Chris Ovenden apparently typed: the majority who use something like body { font-size:76% } - a de facto 'standard' for good reason: That standard was formulated over a decade ago, when CSS1 was in gestation, for the environmental realities of yesteryear. Good

Re: [css-d] font-size advice

2007-03-27 Thread Chris Ovenden
On 3/27/07, Rick Pasotto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 02:28:33PM +0100, Chris Ovenden wrote: I'm afraid that question has been discussed to death in this list and elsewhere. I'd say you just have to decide between usability and right size, since usability means

Re: [css-d] font-size advice

2007-03-27 Thread Stephen Jungels
Thanks for the good discusssion. I didn't anticipate that a question about font sizes would start such a lively discussion ;) Since I am including people with vision impairment in my target audience, it's important to enable font resizing in as many browsers as possible. So I will stick with

Re: [css-d] font-size advice

2007-03-27 Thread kdavis
I just wanted to add a link to an article which was posted by Ed Seehouse on the previous thread perfect font sizes- any sample solutions?- http://pages.prodigy.net/chris_beall/TC/ (then choose Font size from the list on that page) It sums up well, I thought, and in clear, simple language I

Re: [css-d] font-size advice

2007-03-27 Thread grovesdavid
Good evening to All, I think maybe we should now all accept the warning, and not force the intervention of a moderator. I would say this, on this subject. Besides what has been written here, what I've been told privately and what I have managed to find on the web, (some going back as far, as

Re: [css-d] font-size advice

2007-03-27 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are no definitive answers to anything on the web, there will always be an exception to any rule we care to make, that's what we have to live with, and work with. So lets all accept it and move on.. Agree or not 'Georg?' Asked directly like that, I