Javier wrote: > Now, I'm a web developer that don't want to fall in > the "tirany" you described. What should I do to be a > better developer with the user in mine ? Do you have a > solution or recommendation ? Start by understanding that the web is a fluid medium, and exactly what that means. One good place to start that is at http://www.westciv.com/style_master/house/good_oil/not_paper/
Besides the material I created myself at URL in .sig below, take a look the material at the links on http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/auth/wauth2.html The short story is the user has ultimate control, which means you as designer don't. Design to accomodate that concept rather than fighting it. Make no assumptions about users' needs but one: he knows better than you what size works best for him, and you have no foolproof way to know what that size is. Before you design, take the same step the informed user takes: set your own browser defaults to what best suits you. Then design. Then test, and make sure sizes significantly larger or smaller than what you like best don't make your site unusable. Here's an example of surviving significantly larger text: http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/tmp/wallpaperdotcomL22m.png source: http://www.wallpaper.com/ That page has <body> set to only 9px. Mozilla is set to a default of 22px, and a minimum font size of the same 22px. Note among other things the size relationship between browser menu text and paragraph text, absence of flash objects, absence of overlapping text, and input and select in which 100% of the text shows. In spite of the tiny (compared to paragraph) text embedded in images, it remains usable. -- "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof..." U.S. Constitution, Amendment 1 Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/auth/ ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
