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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Felix Miata
Sent: Sunday, 14 November 2004 6:36 AM
<<<<> 5) I'd suggest setting your "body" font size to 76% or 0.7em. It looks
> just a little better at that size.
It already is .7em, which is only half default size (49% of the total
pixels per character box of the default size).>>>>>
Thanks for your thoughts Felix. The size is already at 0.7em because I
adopted the excellent suggestion of Hugh Todd and changed it.
<<<<If one is using IE6 and the median screen resolution of 1024x768,
scrolling is required to discover the <H2> "Too small to read?" (which
at 1.5em X 13px is ~2.5px smaller than my Gecko default). If one gets to
the point of seeing it and clicking on it, he is delivered a page that
also has everything except headings and <TD> ("What's on the air today:"
data is much larger in IE than is <p> on the rest of the page) set to
13px (which is who knows how big compared to the user's default, which
in my case translates to a minescule 35%), on this a page ostensibly
intended to help the user overcome too small page text. How is a user
supposed to read this? What a paradox - help that needs help!
On this help page at the very least the help text should be big enough
to read - e.g. 1.0em. But then that begs the question - if the text was
big enough in the first place, the visitor wouldn't need the page in the
first place, would he?>>>>>>
I put the "too small to read?" page in there because the deputy chairman of
the station who is overseeing the project couldn't read the site. In my
browser, it all looks fine. In his it doesn't. It's a conundrum. If he
set up his browser properly, the site would look ok.
You don't think the 'help' page is much use obviously. Well my problem is, I
can't see the issue I'm trying to solve. I don't know how to set up my
browser wrongly so I get the same view that our deputy chairman does. You
do apparently. Since the help page looks wrong to you, and I can't see the
problem that I'm trying to solve, perhaps rather than merely criticising you
could help me out here by suggesting what would be a better setting. I
figured that for anyone who saw the text on the site as being too small, the
only way I could give them a page that they could definitely see would be
one with text fixed at the normal pixel size used in the old-fashioned sites
- namely with body text fixed at 11-15 pixels (I chose 13px).
To be honest I don't know how to deal with this issue and perhaps others
might like to suggest a way. If they can't see the site because it's too
small, and I want to keep the relative font sizing, how to I deliver a help
page that they can see? It's silly to give them a page with fonts in
relative sizes (1.0em) because that's the problem they're trying to solve!
For the others that size is huge.
<<<<The chevrons placed to the left of the teaserpara.h2 in Gecko are
obscuring the h2 in IE.>>>>
The chevrons obscuring text? Not in any browser I use at any resolution
I've been able to test at. Perhaps you can give me some more details of
your resolution settings, os etc.
<<<<I didn't look into the why, but at higher resolutions, the topmost menu
wraps below itself on top of the dark background. Also, the date is
split into two parts, part on the left, the rest imposed illegibly on
the dark blue background of the top of the schedule table.>>>>>
I'd be most grateful if you DID look into the why, because on my browsers,
at all resolutions I can test at down to 800x600 (below that I'm not
interested in) it scales nicely, and is right aligned, and comes across to
about 80% of the width of the page. The remaining space is to be used by
two more major divisions of the site once they're ready. I'm not sure what
higher resolution you are using but I work at 1280x1024 and I don't know if
many of our users are going to be going higher than that. If there are
problems with layout higher at resolutions higher than 1280x1024 I guess
we'll have to live with it. 2 or 3 users aren't going to be a problem.
What higher resolution are you talking about, Felix?
Cheers
Mike Kear
Windsor, NSW, Australia
AFP Webworks
http://afpwebworks.com
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