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Posted by Spartanicus on 06/09/05 14:09
"Alan J. Flavell" <flavell@ph.gla.ac.uk> wrote:
>The topic as far as I was concerned was to illustrate the fact that
>displays are improving with time.
You specifically brought up resolution, the best CRT models provide
~0.24mm dot pitch, this hasn't changed in over a decade. A dot pitch of
0.24mm translates into a maximum obtainable resolution of 106PPI.
Flat panel displays are available in higher resolutions, they are almost
exclusively found in a few niche laptops. Any significant increase
cannot be summed up as an "improvement" given the new issues the higher
resolution introduces.
>I'm just making the point that a serif font is
>not necessarily wrong
I mentioned a particular issue with regard to serif fonts, but I did so
in a way that defies a binary right/wrong classification.
>But whatever you say, I persist in my assertion that the user's own
>choice of font is by definition their choice, and as authors it's our
>job to work with that. If they choose Verdana then that's perfectly
>fine by me, I see no reason to argue with them about it, but of course
>they'll also need to choose their preferred size, and protect that
>choice from inappropriate interference from other sources.
The last addition is a rather crucial one, and very difficult to convey
to the average user given the new issues that such a counter measure is
likely to introduce.
>If the design then falls apart, it's not the user's fault.
Certainly, but it is something the user will be confronted with. This is
fine as long as the user has made in informed choice, few are likely to
given the complexity of the issue.
>The known problems with Verdana, as illustrated on Poley's
>demonstration page, relate to authoring choices, not to user
>choices - http://www.xs4all.nl/~sbpoley/webmatters/verdana.html
The understanding that similar issues exists with Verdana as a user font
are less well understood by fewer people. That doesn't mean that no such
issue exists.
>An improved version of font-size-adjust would offer a possible
>resolution of that issue, but instead of improving a flawed start,
>most browser implementers ignored it entirely,
I'm not aware of any implementation of the font-size-adjust property.
>and now the W3C have taken it away altogether.
It's only removed from CSS 2.1 because one of 2.1's stated purposes is
that it should better reflect what has actually been implemented.
Font-size-adjust is back as part of CSS3, taken verbatim from the 2.0
spec afaik.
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Spartanicus
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