On 5 Sep 2007, at 20:15, Felix Miata wrote:
There's already proof in the results - the web is overwhelmed by
sites that set fonts
smaller than the defaults - and the consequence that normal web
users don't like it. http://www.useit.com/alertbox/designmistakes.html
Is it possible that the last few years of preaching about font sizes
*has* made a difference?
I don't remember the last time I visited a mainstream site and found
the fonts smaller than normal.
can you point to some popular sites (I mean mainstream popular sites)
where the fonts are
(a) non-resizable and
(b) too small
I think most of us *get it*.
leave the default alone so as not to interfere with the minority of
users that have adjusted their browser font size and then adjust to
what seems to be the norm, or what the client asks for.
(it's not 16px AFAICT)
why is it, I ask in all honesty, that the comments pages of the BBC
site aren't full of complaints that the fonts are unreadable? (they
care about Accessibility too - http://www.bbc.co.uk/accessibility/)
(FYI, my big screen is for usable screen space, not font size - I
code in TextMate using a bitmap font at 9pt and the screen resolution
is 2560x1600 and I'm viewing it from about arms length with my
reading glasses on.)
When was the last time "normal users" were asked about font sizes?
How normal are Jacobs Alertbox subscribers and just how many of them
responded to his quiz two years ago?
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