Kim, You have reminded me why I need those quiet hours to think it through. As one who frequently ups the size of type in the browser your point hits home. I find it more than irritating when I can't change a type size, nearly always something in the 'needs a magnifying glass' category.
The other point that concerns me greatly is that the majority of web users are not up to date with their technology; also there is a lot of disabling of anything it is possible to disable. So for my site I like to keep it as simple as will serve the purpose it is there for. This excludes a lot of things like flash (another experience that I often find annoying). When I am attempting to put a book together the control is greater but the point of the book is that its contents are readily accesible, so there is a small case for sophistication. I have had lots of trouble trying to get planned books sorted out, as it happens, and have been driven back to taking out illustration since a programme I was using mysteriously upped the pdf output size from about 5Mb as an A4 to 13Mb as an A5!! The program vendors have been no help, simply agreeing that the output was 13Mb! Joseph > Joseph, > > I'd like you to allow me to argue on the side of flexible sizes for a > minute. Flexible point sizes for fonts are important for usability > reasons. People who don't see well want larger sized fonts. > > One of the beauty of CSS is that it gives fluidity to layouts, making > it possible for them to be viewed on a pda or a wide-screen monitor, > and having the ability to scale fonts up or down in tandem with a > tableless layout offers design possibilities that fixed image design > doesn't offer. This is thinking outside the box in an entirely new > way. > > Compelling arguments are made on the side of flexible fonts by Jakob > Nielsen [The usability guru] and Eric A. Meyers [The css guru]. I've > read a number of strong recommendations against invoking the > !important rule which would override individual users' style sheet > preferences which they set up in user agents and never seen one > argument recommending its usage. Some sites build a specific point > size into their layout and provide access to alternate sizes through > buttons on the site - see http://www.wired.com. > > Kimi > > > What flexible fonts boils > At 12:09 AM +0100 9/4/03, Joseph Harris wrote: > >I am in a quandary over type > >size. I have noted the discussions which take place and will eventually > >apply the preferred form on my site. As a former journalist I am more > >comfortable with points and need a quiet hour or two to get round the > >relationship to the web forms. > > > At 12:20 PM -0400 9/3/03, Stephen Caudill wrote: > > Another small quibble, point size should really only be used to > >specify print sizes in an @media import call to a style sheet. The > >prefferred method for accessible, resizable text is to use 'em' as > >the unit of measurement. typically I set my baseline at around > >'.9em' in my style for the 'body' element and scale up or down from > >there, depending on need. > > > -- > Kim Brooks Wei > www.kimbwei.com > P O Box 626 > Fair Lawn > NJ 07410 > V 201.475.1854 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ____ . The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM . ____ > To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Send Your Posts To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To set a personal password send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the words: "set WDVLTALK pw=yourpassword" in the body of the email. > To change subscription settings to the wdvltalk digest version: > http://wdvl.internet.com/WDVL/Forum/#sub > > ________________ http://www.wdvl.com _______________________ > > You are currently subscribed to wdvltalk as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe send a blank email to %%email.unsub%% > ____ � The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM � ____ To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Send Your Posts To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To set a personal password send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the words: "set WDVLTALK pw=yourpassword" in the body of the email. To change subscription settings to the wdvltalk digest version: http://wdvl.internet.com/WDVL/Forum/#sub ________________ http://www.wdvl.com _______________________ You are currently subscribed to wdvltalk as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
