Rimantas Liubertas wrote Thu, 23 Feb 2006 02:02:35 +0200: > Only these are browsers vendors defaults, not users.
The browsers/vendors defaults are the users default defaults, mostly 12pt, or px equivalents thereof when all other settings remain at defaults. > Can anyone point me to a study which shows: Here's one that exemplifies others, and to which I've seen a total of 0 inconsistent therewith: http://psychology.wichita.edu/optimalweb/text.htm It says most users prefer 12pt, which just happens to be the same as what browsers default to, and is usually substantially larger than the 11px-12px preference of most web designers. > And once again there should be a reason that majority web pages go > with font size about 12px. There is. Most designers are detail oriented people using large displays. Such people are more comfortable than average with things small, and so get one application of smaller via their preference, compounded by the application of compensation for their large displays. If it wasn't a health hazard to do so they should all be forced to use 14" primary displays at 1400x1050. Also, they and the people who pay them play the that's what everybody else is doing so it must be OK game. > Coincidentally, 12-13px is my proffered font size... What pt size does that correspond to on your main display? What size is your main display? What is your primary resolution? How old are your eyes? How good is your corrected vision? How close do you sit to your display? Do your parents or grandparents find using your web pages on your equipment and settings equally comfortable as you? I quit buying magazines and newspapers because I got too tired of the tiny print they use. The web doesn't by its nature, unlike print media, force me to accept uncomfortably small type like that. That's a huge inherent web strength. Designers wielding the power of CSS can attempt to make me hate their pages, and usually do. The result is usually me turning off author styles entirely, as zooming all too often makes a mess out a design that didn't account for the possibility that the vision, settings, and equipment of the user don't match that of the designer. I'm not alone in this. More users want 12pt than anything else, but designers don't want them to have it. To me, that's the antithesis of a best practice. -- "Love your neighbor as yourself." Mark 12:31 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/auth/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 ******************************************************
