tee wrote:
IS 200% one time font size increasement or two?
200% is twice the default size, and the number of steps to get there
varies from browser to browsers.
Again: _default_ isn't whatever size you have declared in/for your
document, but the browsers' own defaults. This default font size is what
you see on your screen(s) when you do not declare font-size at all in
your documents.
Then, make the letters in the text twice as tall in the browser itself,
without zooming the page as a whole. That is 200% font resizing - the
kind that actually works for end-users.
My practise for a good layout is two times increasement, and I try to
accommodate one decrement, but sometimes with certain design layout,
especially with floated elements that either one or both have
background image(s) that the underneath div block has different
background color, it's just too much work to take good care and I let
it goes without guilt :)
Guilt would be misplaced no matter what, and shouldn't be an issue. No
matter what you do you're in good (or "good") company :-)
It is however your creation that gets broken if it can't take a
reasonable amount of the stress it risks getting exposed to when
end-users use their browsers as designed, so you can't complain about it
being broken either.
That foreground and background get somewhat "detached" here and there is
quite normal, and in some cases unavoidable with today's browsers and
standards when background-images are used. Resizing of background-images
to go with containers is only implemented on an experimental level in
one or maybe two browsers - have only seen/tested it in Opera.
We have only the tool-set that is available in browsers at any given
time to play with, and when that tool-set isn't sufficient we either
have to scale back our, or our clients', ambitions and use somewhat
safe solutions, or we have to accept that our designs break.
Minimizing the problems caused by breakage at the user-end is an
important part of web design IMO, and "trying now" certainly makes it
easier to pick up and make use of new design tools as they become
available to us.
regards
Georg
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