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Posted by Jukka K. Korpela on 08/10/06 21:36
dorayme <doraymeRidThis@optusnet.com.au> scripsit:
> It is amazing what folk will put up with
Surely. Should we therefore make them suffer more?
> and website
> makers on the whole tend to use less than 100%.
Really? Did you actually conduct a survey, or is this your impression? The
impression is most probably wrong, since so many pages use _fixed_ font
sizes, which might be smaller than your browser's basic font size, or some
common default font size in browsers, but it's still a completely different
issue - even though it may look similar.
We have three groups of pages in this respect:
1) no font size setting, or font size set to 100% or 1em, which is more or
less the same thing
2) font size set to a percentage other than 100% (or em value other than
1em)
3) font size set in fixed units (px, pc, pt, mm, whatever)
I'm pretty sure that group 2) does not constitute more than 50% of all pages
(and some of them set the font size larger than 100%).
> This has consequences.
Everything has.
> One of them is that there would be a tendency for
> browsers to be set either by default or by a technician at what
> makes most sites comfortable viewing.
I thought you thought that the great majority does not touch the font
settings of their browsers at all. So I don't quite follow your reasoning.
> When the good guys use
> 100%, it looks oddly big to a lot of people.
Perhaps. I prefer looking "oddly big" to looking foolishly small - and
unreadable to hundreds of millions of people at least if they don't know how
to set the font size in their browsers.
Have you _ever_ seen or read a genuine user's complain about too large font
size on a web page? Compare this with the actual complaints about too small
sizes.
"Oddly big" is what designers themselves find as objectionable.
--
Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca")
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/
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