I wonder what proportion of web users ever bother to adjust the default text size of their browser(s)? The preset default size is generally 16 (I think Safari is different?) although I'm not sure what the units are for that default -- pixels? Points?
I think that most people, if they were browsing a site that didn't adjust the font size by CSS, would find that default size uncomfortably large. However, they never adjust their default setting because a) they don't even know that they can, and wouldn't know how to if they did, and b) the majority of sites these days make some effort to ramp the type down from 16 to something more 'designed' -- so the user may not even be aware how large their default setting is. Certainly, if I asked my mum about her default text size setting on her web browser, she'd look at me as if I'd just asked her about an obscure branch of quantum physics, or the open cast mining industry in Venezuela during the 1830s. And a vast proportion of the web using world is, I suspect, just like my mum. The use it, but they would never think to tinker. My point is that whilst we are arguing that it may be unacceptable to tell the user that their preferred text size is 'wrong' by specifying something smaller, it possibly worth considering the idea that their 'preferred' size might be a matter of ignorance and lethargy, rather than of any particular proactive choice. Just thinking out loud is all. Rick -- **ORIGINAL MESSAGE** Received from Felix Miata on 21/6/07 at 21:14(London time): >Understand that rational web users will attempt to have settings that >provide a rational and functional relationship between physical text >size and physical viewport size. ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7 information -- 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/
