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Posted by Nick Theodorakis on 08/10/06 15:16
Kevin Scholl wrote:
> Chris F.A. Johnson wrote:
>
>> You must assume that the user has the default size set at their
>> preferred size.
>
> Allow me to play devil's advocate here, though I'm quite sure will
> probably generate the same ol' black-and-white bantering...
>
> In my experience (which for reference goes back to the pre-Mosaic days)
> the vast - and I DO mean VAST - majority of people have no idea that
> this is even possible, much less HOW to do it.
>
IIRC an early version of Netscape used to have prominent buttons on the
toolbar for changing text size, but I digress.
Let's grant your assumption -- that most users don't know how to change
the default text size. A number of those users are likely to have
poorer vision than you (and this number will likely grow as the
web-using population ages). If you reduce the font size for main text,
you may well likely make it hard or impossible for those users to read
your text, especially if they don't know how to change their browser
settings. What is worse, having text that may appear to be "too big" for
sharp-eyed people that don't know how to adjust their browser, or having
text that is unreadable for poor-sighted people that don't know how to
adjust their browser?
Nick
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