On 2007/06/06 19:45 (GMT+0100) Designer apparently typed:
> Felix Miata wrote:
>> All that said, the way I judge the readability of any page is by the size of
>> the bulk of its content and main navigation, not by a couple of minimal
>> importance non-primary-content lines it contains.
>> By that standard, Bob's is a substantial distance from comfortable to read,
>> barely above "fine print" (pain) threshold in the absence of applied zoom or
>> minimum font size.
> Interestingly, I notice that the text I produced on this 'template'
> ("barely above "fine print" (pain) threshold") site is just marginally
> bigger than the default menu bars on FF2, IE7, Opera . . .
> Just an observation :-)
Probably pretty close to exactly like this (standard XP 8pt/11.67px Tahoma menu
text): http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/SS/bobs2col096W.png
Note that on KDE on Linux the default menu text is bigger (10pt/13.33px vs.
your template's 75%/14px): http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/SS/bobs2col096L.gif
On Mac the menu text is apparently both bigger still, and more legible than
your page text, since its contrast is much higher than your #333 on #F1F1F1,
while the same apparent size (but not the
x-height gigantic Verdana): http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/SS/bobs2col096M.jpg
All the way back at least into W95, doz has defaulted to what M$ for many years
called "small" text for its UI. With XP in 2001 it renamed it from "small" to
"normal".
Your interesting observation I haven't seen mentioned very often in any web
development forums, but I did address it quite some time back:
http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/auth/defaultsize.html#note1 . The
summary of that paragraph is that normal web page content text has no business
being anywhere near as small as browser UI text.
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