Hi, everybody!
I am reading the list for quite some time, so first of all a big thank to all of you who share their knowledge and tricks with fools like me.
Regarding to the font size discussion I feel I have to give my first input to the list:
Somebody buys a laptop with a 14 inch screen and puts it 1400 by 1050 pixel screenresolution. Then he complains, that all of the text ist to small to read. That reminds me of the man, who choose a two-seated spider car because he likes it very much to drive fast with an open roof. And than he complains about the designer of that car, because he is not able to move his 5-room-houshold to the next city with that car and has to rent a truck.
To clarify my opinion: On every computer I know, it is possible to reduce the screenresolution to get bigger text to the screen. So, when sobody with a handicap on his eyesight uses to set the screenresolution to the max. possible, he should not blame a webdesigner for no longer being able to read the text on a website. I design all my websites on a computer with the screenresolution set appropriate to the size of the screen I use. If the user does the same, he will be able to read, what is written there. If not, it's not my fault.
My job is to design pleesing websites, which are liked by both, the one who pays and the average user. I don't think it's my job, to solve all the problems in readability caused by bad browsers, wrong adjusted screens an bad default settings. Nobody pays me for that.
Lothar B. Baier (an older guy, wearing glasses!)
P.S. All typing mistakes belong to the one, who finds them!
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