At 15:28 (London time), on 7/8/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >A few years ago, I taught a basic HTML class to employees of a large >*high-tech* company. Out of hundreds of students, only a handful had >any idea they could change their default text, or -- note -- anything >else that involved *using* the menus at the top of the browser. They >simply never explored them. > >This continues to be true of every /non-developer/ I've dealt with >personally or professionally. > >I've had clients/usability test participants rave about how wonderful >it was having an on-page font resizer. Not one realized that was also >duplicated functionality. Not one. > >Claiming that the average user has configured any browser to her/his >personal taste is simply wishful thinking.
Phew. I was beginning to think I was some sort of lone heretic for even thinking this stuff. Of course, accepting that use of a default text size is possibly more due to inertia than to choice doesn't do much to constructively help us decide how best to size text. If not by simply setting content text to 100%, then how? Current wisdom would appear to say "use default text size, and people who want it smaller than that (because they find the design ugly at default sizes) will know what to do and will probably already have amended their default settings". But it seems that most won't. -- Rick Lecoat ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
