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Posted by dorayme on 03/26/06 06:29
Carolyn Marenger wrote:
> Cerebral Believer wrote:
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> > "Jonathan N. Little" <lws4art@centralva.net> wrote in message
> > news:44255fbb$0$3700$cb0e7fc6@news.centralva.net...
> >> Cerebral Believer wrote:
> Why not leave the font setting at 100% and adjust your browser so it looks
> good to you on your system. Then it will also look good to everyone else
> when they see it on theirs at their ideal font size. This is assuming of
> course that they have their default font size set to their ideal.
This assumption is not as simple as it looks. It is an assumption made
by Toby too in his nice page on this business (sorry, once again, lost
post on my online reader and am trying Google).
The assumption is that a site that is made with no specified or 100%
main text is the basis for the average user to set the preferred
browser size. But I really do wonder how true this assumption is. I get
out now and then and am always surprised to see how big my main text
looks on other people's computers. I think what happens a lot more than
is realised is this: default browser settings and/or user twiddling
settle them to read average web pages. Average web pages made by
average designers, most of whom, are not followers of the generally
intelligent policies repeatedly advertised on alt.html, seem very often
if not mostly to use less than normal sizes. In other words, users have
browsers set to compensate for small sized texts!
I am not advocating against your advice. I am a great supporter of it.
It is just that I think, privately, we should distinguish between
advocacy and analysis. The more designers follow the good advice, the
more the ideal is reached but there is a pressure to use smaller than
normal just because others do and it has influenced browser settings. I
speak from what i see around me and from pressure from one or two of my
clients (usually resisted by me, but not 100% successfully)
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dorayme
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