On 2007/09/05 22:49 (GMT+0100) Tony Crockford apparently typed: > On 5 Sep 2007, at 22:04, Felix Miata wrote:
>> BBC News seems to be still as described on http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/ >> SS/bbcSS.html (body is still 'font:normal 13px Verdana, Arial, >> Helvetica, sans-serif, "MS sans serif";'). > Which brings me back to the question: > Who says it's too small? > which you don't seem to be able to answer in an objective way. I think I have, but here goes another way: 1-I've provided links to places indicating normal ordinary people complaining about too small web page text 2-I've noted apparent absence of places, outside a web developer/designer context, with people complaining about too large web page text 3-I've indicated in other threads direct contact with people indicating as in 1 above 4-I've indicated in other threads virtual absence of contact with people indicating as in 2 above 5-I've provided links to scientific studies that show what size normal ordinary web users prefer 6-I've indicated, and been agreed with, that only a user is in position to determine best/right/ideal size, and that presumptively, whether actively or passively, users have made such a determination; from which it follows that content smaller than 100% must necessarily be smaller than the user's choice - aka too small 7-I've provided links to sites of entities that are in some way qualified as having usability and/or accessibility expertise recommending user defaults be respected with 100% of user defaults based design 8-I've a web site loaded with comments on web font issues Without funds to sponsor a qualified and independent testing institution doing more objective study, I'm not sure what else anyone could do. > I'm suggesting that normal users don't find the BBC site too small, > or they would have complained and the BBC, being responsible and > interested, would have done something about it. In an ideal world big business might actually act on non-paying customer complaints, or non-paying customers might actually bother to complain enough to get noticed. Then again, the BBC is apparently pretty big. http://news.bbc.co.uk/ and http://www.bbc.co.uk/ use considerably different CSS. -- "It yet remains a problem to be solved in human affairs, whether any free government can be permanent, where the public worship of God, and the support of religion, constitute no part of the policy or duty of the state in any assignable shape." Chief Justice Joseph Story Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/ ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
