Gunlaug S�rtun wrote:
As long as user-ignorance is used as an excuse for not doing a proper job at our end, then even this web design community will fail and end up preserving ignorance among ourself *and* the users.
Very true, and I for one am (paradoxically, perhaps) always the first to complain when some quarters suggest things like "let's put a print button or a text resize widget right on the page, because users may be too uneducated to know how to do it themselves". However, as I said, it's a gradual process. As more and more high profile sites adopt the correct way, we'll have to live with a compromise, but nonetheless be prepared to work to good practice once it's more commonly established.
I don't see a problem with small fonts. I _do_ see a problem with _any_ font-size when it is combined with unprepared design-methods. When I, as a user, visit a page with font-size set at around 9px, then I don't see any problems and probably won't notice, as long as the page can take my minimum font size of 12px (or whatever). However, if I _have to switch_ to an alternative stylesheet on that page for it to work, then I might say a few words that I won't repeat in public -- not even in Norwegian.
Sure thing. I wasn't advocating using fixed font sizes and such, but (for the time being) breaking the "no font size should be set smaller than 1em / 100%".
So my point is that as long as a page/site is working reasonably well with available and what should among web designers be well known browser-options, then anyone may add as many options and stylesheets and whatever else they like, to solve problems in a (hopefully short) transitional period.
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