On 06/04/12 01:55 (GMT-0400) Christian Montoya apparently typed: > Liquid Designs reached 100 entries yesterday and I figured the best > way to celebrate would be to let everyone decide the best design out > of those 100. I had a team of 4 guest reviewers pick their favorites > and they came up with 7 finalists. Please take a moment to vote for > your favorite one. Voting will continue until midnight Saturday (EST).
> http://cssliquid.com/2006/news/100-gallery-entries-now-vote-for-the-best/ For any who might care, I've captured all those sites with 1280 wide resolution screenshots, with and without minimum font size set equal to my 20px default. Each of them links to each of the other 6 contextual setup pages and to all 14 screenshots. http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/auth/Sites/sc-cssliquid-cheea.html will get you started. All except Watchmaker nicely tolerate the 20px minimum. What all except Jason show is the dominant text size on each is considerably smaller than Firefox's menu text. Firefox's menu text size here is 10pt, the same size KDE defaults to for all QT app and desktop menus, so the only thing "special" about it is that it's larger than the 8pt M$ default most web designers live most intimately with. Since _everything_ I've found with a claimed scientific basis either recommends an absolute minimum of 10pt, or finds that more ordinary web users prefer the most common OEM browser default of 12pt over other sizes, this means that among the finalists style trumps user preferences, and accessibility for sighted users is something less than optimal. My question is why is this so? Why is it that style cannot permit users by default text they are comfortable reading? Why is this a so nearly universal modern web standard? I'll provide bad answer #1: because space above the fold is precious. Please don't sidetrack on the issue of impropriety of pt for CSS text sizing. CSS text sizes need not be specified in pt for users to get the 12pt or any other size they prefer. -- "Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them." Ephesians 5:11 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/auth/auth ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
