Somethings will always not fit with your design.
But the user would be more than used to websites breaking if they constantly need massive text on screen...
designer wrote:
Hi All,
I joined this group a couple of weeks ago and already have learnt lots of stuff. But, like all new folk to xhtml/css, I'm struggling to accept some of it. I've used CSS for a couple of years now, but only recently have moved to full CSS (no tables etc). The thing that worries me most is accessibility - I love pixels as units of dimensions. In my ignorance/innocence, I used to sit complacent with a design, thinking that because I'd used pixels as my units it was safe from those people who wanted to view 'text size largest' or whatever, and that the innate construction of my site was safe. However, since I started to use Firefox (and Mozilla) I see that my designs can be wrecked in seconds by someone zooming the text size. (Which IE6 won't do). I love Firefox, but to my (learning) eye, this text zoom is BAD! No, I'm not being inconsiderate to folk with visual problems - Opera has a beautiful zoom feature which simply magnifies everything and keeps the design intact, so isn't that the way browsers should be going, instead of just acting on the text?
Clearly, the use of ems is just a nightmare, esp when you have several images and have to guess what the em dimensions are, so what's wrong with 'complete zoom' instead of 'text zoom'?
Let me stress, I'm <em>not </em> being arrogant or inconsiderate - I'm learning. I don't grasp the reasoning behind this and I can't find anything that explains the philosophy of this approach. So I'm asking the question.
Thanks,
Bob (McClelland) Cornwall (U.K.) www.gwelanmor-internet.co.uk
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