I'm thinking that it's possible people will miss these resizing buttons.
What's the general opinion on these?
Good idea? Maybe trying too hard to have their "cake" (in this case, the lack of guilt from using pixels for font sizing) and eat it too?
They're undeniably cool.. but how USEFUL are they?
Ben Boyle wrote:
Why doesn't anyone push the barrow saying "Font sizes should be LARGE by default, and designers should MAKE THE FONT SMALLER if/when they don't like it." Why do we aim to please designers and expect users to make the adjustments? I don't get it. But then, I skipped all the subjects on typography at uni!Hoping the average Joe will fiddle with their browser environment is way out of line, from a usability perspective. You want users to focus on their task and working in that domain - simple and direct feedback as they accomplish what they set out to achieve. Having to stop and figure out "computer stuff" (yet again) is distracting at least, confusing and frustrating for many. Ah but reality never quite reaches Utopia does it? :) But I'm heartened to see that CSS3 looks to include more font keywords. CSS2 gave us "menu", "icon", "caption", etc. These use the fonts (sizes and styles) as specified in the desktop settings of the computer. You would hope, at least, that the user has their computer configured to their personal preference. (Sorry... doesn't help with the netcafe scenario, does it). Does make you wonder why IE (in particular) doesn't pick up any of the desktop settings for use as a default font size. Why is that? I was disappointed CSS2 never had a font keyword for standard window text. Perhaps CSS3 will help us finally put the font issue to rest - or at least down a very deep pit where I don't have to listen to it anymore. Sorry but I've copped almost a years worth of discussion on this at work, directly and indirectly. Fonts. Grrr. Perhaps it's time to render all text as images once more! *ducks* ***************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ *****************************************************
