We are treading on the edge of civility with exclamations like "wrong"
and "nonsense." This topic has been covered dozens of times on this
list and too often wanders into downright argument based on opinion and
personal preferences.
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Rick Pasotto wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 02:28:33PM +0100, Chris Ovenden wrote:
>>> I'm afraid that question has been discussed to death in this list
>>> and elsewhere. I'd say you just have to decide between "usability"
>>> and "right size", since usability means that there is no right size.
>> Surely the "right size", or a t least the right initial size, is the
>> same size as (most) other sites.
>
> Wrong. Truth is *not* determined by majority vote.
>
>> By using body { font-size:100% } or similar,
>
> You are giving the user what the user finds most comfortable to read.
>
>> you're immediately making your fonts annoyingly large compared to the
>> majority who use something like body { font-size:76% } - a de facto
>> 'standard' for good reason:
>
> Nonsense like that is why I have to increase the displayed font size
> (sometimes *twice*) on 90+% of the sites I visit in order to be able to
> read them. That is most definitely *not* user friendly.
>
> The web is *not* print. The rules are different. Do not expect your
> pages to look exactly the same on all displays. You can't even be sure
> that your selected font is available and different fonts have different
> base sizes, a fact that could very easily throw off all your careful
> calculations.
>
--
Bob Easton
Accessibility Matters: http://access-matters.com
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