I would spend 95% of my time on special solutions or hacks, which are
pleasing only 5% of the users.
Although I wouldn't say it works out to be such a big percentage, but
you are right you would spend some time on it. But you need to start
spending that time on it, new laws being passed will
hardware designers to not set the default resolution
of a screen to what is technicaly possible but to just something, which
is compatible with human eyesight.
What size, a pixel?
Engineers have created full-color screens, 400 pixels square, which are
smaller than a dime. Certainly setting a
Actually, Felix has some interesting studies on his site about font
size, pixel, resolution relationships:
http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/auth/
And I couldn't agree more with you about stuff we design today probably
not working tomorrowbut y'know, thankfully seperating content and
also look here: http://www.thenoodleincident.com/tutorials/box_lesson/font/
On 2004-11-19 1:02 PM, Ben Curtis wrote:
This has been an interesting, if heated, thread. I think a large part of
it revolves around being unable to measure people's default font size.
The arrogance vs. idealist portion
