Selectively quoting and removing the key point I made misrepresents what I said in my earlier email:
"There is nothing arrogant about wanting my design translated as close as possible across all platforms, for all visitors. There is only arrogance where the designer (or worse still, the client who the site is for) fixes the font sizes in such a way that the site visitor cannot re-size to their own liking, or re-sizing breaks the overall flow for reading." The bit where I say there is only arrogance when designers (or their clients) impose a fixed font size. I believe that the best the designer can do is ensure their fonts are specified in relative units so that a site visitor can resize the text to whatever they like. For the vast majority, those sites WILL be ready for use on arrival. And for the minority who have a vision impairment, or are advanced users with huge resolutions with tiny default settings, they can resize using the inbuilt browser functions. It really isn't as cut and dried as you are trying to imply. If designers left all text at the browser default for whatever resolution they are designing on, why bother with design at all? What not serve everything as plain html with some images aligned left or right here and there? On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 08:31:00 -0500, Felix Miata <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Natalie Buxton wrote: > > > There is nothing arrogant about wanting my design translated as close > > as possible across all platforms, for all visitors. [...] > > It is arrogant to impose it, rather than merely wish it. What you are > doing is saying to your visitors "I can't actually know what your > default is, but regardless what it really is, it's too big for me, and > I'm imposing a xx% reduction from whatever you chose as most appropriate > for yourself, whether your default is 9px, or 90px or anything in > between." Whether you realize or intend it, or not, it is what you're > doing. It causes https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=269880 or > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=243261 or some other > variation thereof to happen frequently. (Most such bugs get resolved > WONTFIX or INVALID directly instead of properly marked as duplicates of > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65571 ) > -- Website Designer/Developer www.nataliebuxton.com ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
