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Posted by Ed Seedhouse on 12/10/06 18:24
On Sun, 10 Dec 2006 01:19:53 -0500, Neredbojias
<http://www.neredbojias.com/fliam.php?cat=alt.html> wrote:
>To further the education of mankind, Ed Seedhouse <eseedhouse@shaw.ca>
>vouchsafed:
>> What about people who don't see so well and have to enlarge your
>> fonts? What happens to your fixed width sites on a few size increases?
>Ya know, I've heard that many times. And I am definitely an anti-fixed-
>width/pro-fluid website fan. However, the though occurs to me it isn't
>really a valid argument. What about people who see poorly and want to read
>a book? Sure, they can buy a large-text version (if and when it's
>available, which is hardly always) or acquired an aural edition, but
>neither of these comes packaged with the normal, everyday version.
Which is a disadvantage of books and an advantage to the web. When web
has so many other disadvantages compared to books, we should be sure to
make use of it's advantages, such as the ability to scale automatically
to viewport size.
>While I agree that fixed-width sites should be avoided (both meanings),
>sight impairment has less to do with it than site impairment.
Believe me, there's a lot of people with site impairment and there will
be many more in the next decade or two as the baby-boomers age. Baby
boomers have a lot of money so why drive them away from your site?
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