Ben Beuchler writes:
> I've heard from a few people already, but please send any replies back to the
> list so the other people working on this here can see 'em...
You're using precisely the design style that I wish to avoid.
All your fonts are fixed to particular pixel size: you have specified most
of them to be 10 pixels high. Look at your style sheet. Which means that
on my big 1280x1024 flat panel LCD 18 incher, over a 100 lines of text can
now fit on a single screen. I took a screen dump and loaded it into Gimp
just to verify that all lowercase letters were five pixels high. The
lowercase 's' had its horizontal strokes on every other scan line.
I don't think I want to use a microscope to read my E-mail.
The default style sheet I provide does not use fixed font sizes. All font
sizes are specified as relative to the browser's default baseline. It also
does not use hard-coded fonts faces, except for very few exceptions. Which
means that people can adjust their browser's settings to select a font that
they like, and a font size that's the most comfortable for them to work
with. This is not possible with your style sheet. Your other, non-font
aspects of the design are nice, and this approach might work in a corporate
environment where everyone standardizes on the same browser and the same
operating system. But this is not something that will work well for
everyone.
--
Sam
