Natalie Buxton wrote at Fri, 19 Nov 2004 08:58:25 +1100: > Selectively quoting and removing the key point I made misrepresents > what I said in my earlier email:
I normally quote only portions relevant to comments I make. > 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. If the first thing visitors need to do on arrival is change the page's font size, even though they have previously set defaults that suit their needs for sites that honor defaults, those sites weren't ready for use on arrival. > 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? There's a LOT more to designing for the web than fonts. With the current state of browsers and standards, designing complex sites that don't break with the use of a wide range of font sizes is anything but trivial. -- "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 ******************************************************
