Hardline reply: the onus is, at least in part, on the user. She needs to learn about the browser's settings, and if she's got the font size set to "smallest" in her browser, well then...she shouldn't really complain. Having said that, you can use absolute sizes xx-small, x-small, small, large, x-large, xx-large which should never fall below a certain size, even when set to "smallest".
Patrick > -----Original Message----- > From: dunk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 14 September 2004 09:26 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [WSG] I need advice with following font size standards and IE > > > Hi all, > > I know by now the very strict rule of avoiding "px" font > sizing as much as > possible because IE will not size them up or down, but I'm > finding an awful > lot of people are using IE in the smaller and small size > settings and not > even knowing about it. In fact I had one guy tell me I should be > redesigning a website he regularly visits because it's too > small and on > inspection I realised they were following the standards, its > just that he > had his IE set on text-size:smaller. My own IE opens as a default on > smaller (its very frustrating) > > The smaller settings seem irrelevant to most webpages, I have > never gone to > my netscape zoom and scaled a website down, because there's > almost never > any reason to. > > So my question is, how do you design a website that will look > compact and > nice at a normal size, BUT -will not be tiny in IE for those > who don't > realise they have it set to small AND doesn't break the > standard. I'm very > tempted to stick a fixed font size at the start of my > stylesheet. Is there > another way? > > Thanks guys, this is really bugging me. > > Duncan > > ****************************************************** > The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ > > Proud presenters of Web Essentials 04 http://we04.com/ > Web standards, accessibility, inspiration, knowledge > To be held in Sydney, September 30 and October 1, 2004 > > See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > for some hints on posting to the list & getting help > ****************************************************** > > ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ Proud presenters of Web Essentials 04 http://we04.com/ Web standards, accessibility, inspiration, knowledge To be held in Sydney, September 30 and October 1, 2004 See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
