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Posted by Neredbojias on 11/13/37 11:26
With neither quill nor qualm, Jim Higson quothed:
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> Most sites seem to use smaller text smaller than the user's default for
> their content. Not just badly designed sties - a lot of the very beautiful
> pages on CSS Zen Garden have text at 80% or smaller. From what I can tell,
> this is because browsers (IE especially) have the default text size set to
> be quite large.
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> Now, if users are used to text being set to 80% in CSS, they will set their
> default size to 120% or so, thus getting it back up to a sane size. I do
> this: I like reading 10px text, but if I keep that as the default I have to
> hit Ctrl-plus for every site, so I set my browser to use size 14.
>
> When designing sites I like to respect the users' preferences, and have
> always thought the main content should be the default size, but once users
> have compensated for every other site using 60~90% for their default text
> this is making the text on my sites look large and out of place. Plus there
> are many IE users who don't realise they can change their default text size
> and just wonder why my text is so large.
>
> The "font-size:80%" phenomenon seems to be a larger problem among web
> designers of following the letter of the spec (validating HTML etc) but not
> in the spirit by actually using the tools as intended.
>
> What to do?
Go out drinking. In lieu of that, if you're capable at javascript, you
can detect the actual size of text on users' browsers and adjust it
accordingly. (Javascript users only, of course.)
Example:
http://www.neredbojias.com/alpha/rextex.html
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