On 06/05/19 09:32 (GMT+0100) Alastair Campbell apparently typed: > Intending for layout's to scale based on font size isn't such a good > idea for accessibility, it often leads to lots of horizontal scrolling > for those who need it most. See this for more explanation: > http://alastairc.ac/2006/05/accessible-layouts/
I strongly disagree. Lots of horizontal scroll need not occur in intelligent designs. Your em width elastic layout example http://alastairc.ac/code/blogged_examples/layout_test_em.html seems to fail your test because you didn't incorporate ideal line lengths, going just enough on the long side of ideal to make it easy to fail your test. When your testing maintains a reasonable relationship between text size and viewport width, a reasonable line length results, and the content fits. You may or may not get a horizontal scroll for peripheral content, but that shouldn't matter as long as the important content fits with a reasonable line length. The people who routinely need _really_ big text (18pt+) are familiar with horizontal scrolling, pretty much expect it to happen more than occasionally, and won't miss things because of it. About line lengths: http://psychology.wichita.edu/optimalweb/text.htm http://www.webstyleguide.com/type/lines.html According to the above, your em width layout's main content is somewhere between 20% and 80% excessive. If you redo your example page with a 50 character or less #content width set in em, instead of the current and arbitrary 63%, you'll probably have to try much harder to fail your test. You may need to follow the lead of the two examples you claimed "work", http://www.svendtofte.com/code/max_width_in_ie/ and http://www.fu2k.org/alex/css/frames/ems, by not undersizing body at font-size: IE=80% other=13px. You should find that when your design respects your visitors' defaults, your designs will tend toward both shorter and more readable line lengths than what I see you using now, and for visitors to need little if any zoom to use them. -- "All have sinned & fall short of the glory of God." Romans 3:23 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/ ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7b2 testing hub -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
