On 2/2/11 11:06 PM, Jeff Nowakowski wrote:
On 02/02/2011 10:59 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
(Absolute) font size does not belong to the page designer, instead to
the user. Just press dedicated key binding (often ctrl-), or whatever
command to set it appropriately.
I'm not sure about that. Facebook's site is professionally designed and
I think they use fixed font sizes all over the place.
There are tons of "professionally designed" big name sites all over the
web that use fixed-font sizes that either look terribly small or
terribly large, comparatively. Don't you experience this yourself?
The whole idea is just wrong. People browse the web in all kinds of
default font sizes, screen resolutions, and preferred browser width.
Your web page should flow naturally to whatever the user has.
Someone mentioned in this thread that leaving all font sizes to default
causes the text to be too small.
The rhetoric is convincing but I'm afraid it can't be properly
translated into reality.
Andrei
