Re: [css-d] About The font size...

2008-12-10 Thread Michael Geary
In case anyone wonders why Felix and Chris and some of the other regulars keep emphasizing the point of respecting the user's font size - and designing your page to allow for different font sizes - I experienced a vivid illustration of this last night. I've been shopping for a car, mostly looking

Re: [css-d] About The font size...

2008-12-10 Thread Chris Taylor
> Regardless which of the possibilities applies in any given case, the > state may be either smaller, or larger, or the same as, the size > preferred by the designer. I agree there are many obstacles in the way of creating the "perfect" layout, but the designers preference should always be of sec

Re: [css-d] About The font size...

2008-12-10 Thread Felix Miata
On 2008/12/10 09:35 (GMT) Chris Taylor composed: >> From: MEM >> 2) Not letting the design experience (that should also be for the user) >> be ruined with some default options that the user may have? > I think this is looking at the problem the wrong way. While designers may > have a preferred f

Re: [css-d] About The font size...

2008-12-10 Thread Chris Taylor
> From: MEM > Sent: 10 December 2008 09:12 > Subject: [css-d] About The font size... > > 2) Not letting the design experience (that should > also be for the user) be ruined with some default options that the user > may have? I think this is looking at the problem the wrong

[css-d] About The font size...

2008-12-10 Thread MEM
I've notice that the main gurus of this mailing-list are always telling us: "pay attention to user options and let the browser do the math". Those are not totally separate statements I believe, but, about the user options, even if the most of the users don't even know about the font-size option, i