On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 01:05:49AM +0000, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> 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 will bring that up with the designer and see if that's something he is
willing to change.
> I don't think I want to use a microscope to read my E-mail.
I don't blame you. However, I have used this layout with five different
browsers on two different operating systems without any difficulty with the
font sizes. Just lucky, I guess.
> 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.
All good points. However, as I pointed out earlier, I have had good success
across multiple browsers, multiple machines, and multiple operating systems.
And none of our customers have mentioned any problems, although your average
dialup customer probably doesn't realize that the web isn't SUPPOSED to be
hard to read.
-Ben
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