On Fri, 07 Jan 2005 13:55:38 -0500, Bruce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I hope I'm not out of line here, but as a webstandards group it is > interesting that a simple matter of font size is awaiting being > addressed by the G8 presidency team...I included this for general interest > ...but at least they are aware of it.
I absolutely hate to jump into the topic of font-size issue, because I think this is the question of religion, not web standards. Which standard exactly prohibits use of px as font-size unit? >From original letter: > Thank you for your interest in the UK G8 Presidency website and bringing > to our attention that the font size cannot be changed via the browser. Why not? I can change it (except for graphical menu and absolutely illegible trademark notice). The only browser which does not allow it is IE for Windows That's it. (yes, I can hear your "it is the most popular and user by 7/8/9-ty percents of the web surfers. Anyway, 1/2/3-ty percent of users CAN change font size in browser. Maybe 0.1% wants to... maybe 0.01% knows how). Mac users don't have this problem, Linux users don't have this problems, Mozilla/Firefox users on any platform don't have this problem. > This is an accessibility issue that we are aware of and hope to be able > to address in the near future. I'd really really like to see any research data which would back up this statement. If you have any links - please, provide. To be more precise: what percentage of unfortunate web surfers knows that it is possible to change font size. And then what percentage of those uses font-changing tools instead of using glasses. That's why I hate this issue - because it is based on assumptions, guesses, and overestimated urge of average user to control something. This is classic case probability vs. possibility. While I agree, that using methods which allow scale fonts on IE/Win to (even it only makes happy all 15 web-developers, who know browsers in and out, and use Firefox anyway) is preferable, I do not think this issue deserves as much attention as it gets now. Regards, Rimantas -- http://rimantas.com/ (yep, px fonts) ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
