On 5/9/07 (15:18) Patrick said: >What usually gets me with this conversation is: assuming users >actually do actively change their font size to their preferred one, >they'll still be visiting sites other than yours. If they indeed found >that the majority of other sites out there have undersized the text, >they would then have set the default sizes to be bigger on their >browser. What happens then if your "correct" site is displayed on >their browser? Would it not be overcompensating then? The principle is >sound, but in practice it doesn't take into account the fact that the >oh so hard done by users would already have coping strategies / >settings in place to deal with their general web browsing, which could >go counter to the assumed "they'll have it set to their preferred >size" (since, assuming that they did set the size, it wouldn't be >"preferred", but "enlarged" to compensate for small font sizes >generally employed).
Thanks for your reply, Patrick; You're right, it's a very 'chicken and egg' situation. In the ideal world every site would have content text set to a base size of 100%, and every user would have their browser tuned to their own preferred text size. But clearly that's not the world that we currently inhabit. How best to navigate this situation to achieve the great real-world results is what I hope this topic will help me work out. -- Rick Lecoat ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
