Jody Levinson wrote:
> Is the text really unreadable and small? It's looked normal
> everywhere we've checked. Perhaps we should be handling that
> differently?
Me thinks so since I can only read it with great difficulty, and there
are too many pages on the web to bother with hard-to-read text when one
can switch to another site. That's life ... on the web.
A font-size of 10px is, IMO, only useful for "legal notes" and other
stuff one wants to make hard to read.
What's regarded as "normal" amongst people with perfect eye-sight in the
lower age-groups, is not very end-user friendly for people outside that
group. Even more so when that "normal" is fixed and unchangeable, and it
can end up far worse in some - if not all - browsers as the range of
screen-resolutions widen.
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What font-size you end up using is up to you, and whether the result is
readable or not is not open for discussion on [css-d] - they say it is
[OFF-TOPIC] on this list. Try any of the lists/forums on the [OFF-TOPIC]
page if you want further opinions on "readability" for your creations.
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However, there are some important factors regarding various font-sizing
methods you should be aware of, and they are very much on-topic here.
1: pixels and points for font-size can not be resized in IE/win. One has
to override author's font-size in accessibility mode to get around that,
which is an option that can be hard to find, and when used it'll break
all your carefully crafted alignments.
2: pixels and points for line-height can not be resized in any mode in
IE/win. Same goes for Opera, btw.
3: having the main background on the body-element means it won't be
resized with the rest of the page when zoomed in IE7. No problem in
other browsers that can zoom pages. Forgot if there's a CSS fix for that
IE-bug.
Bottom line: you should test more thoroughly across browser-land, and
make sure you know what works and what doesn't when conditions are
changed and browser-options are applied. Otherwise you'll be in for some
nasty surprises when your products land on end-user screens and people
starts ripping them apart in order to access them or just leave in
frustration.
regards
Georg
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http://www.gunlaug.no
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