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Posted by Carolyn Marenger on 11/10/49 11:43
Cerebral Believer wrote:
>
> "Alan J. Flavell" <flavell@physics.gla.ac.uk> wrote in message
> news:Pine.LNX.4.62.0603271925350.7405@ppepc56.ph.gla.ac.uk...
>> On Mon, 27 Mar 2006, Cerebral Believer wrote:
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>>> Thanks once again, I think I'll look into expressing font sizes as
>>> percentages for now, although I am still using points for text that
>>> I don't want the user to have sizing control.
>> ^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>
>> The user doesn't *care* what you "want". If I find I'm having
>> difficulties because an author specified some aspect of presentation
>> that makes their site hard to use, I reckon I've got two choices:
>>
>> 1. Leave, or
>>
>> 2. Disable their presentation (and if it *still* doesn't work -
>> leave).
>>
>> Either way, your lovingly created design is toast. My advice to you
>> is to take idea that on board, and aim to please the users too,
>> instead of aiming to please only yourself.
>
> Mmmm, I'll definetly think about what you said there. I just feel that
> users may not need to have sizing control over two lines of text that say
> "please login, if you are not a member please register", whereas for the
> main content of a page, a user would want that control. So when I say I
> don't want the user to have control over certain elements of text, it's
> probably because I don't feel that they need to. In the example I
> mentioned (a login area), the login box and password field possibly act as
> visual clues to what those items are for anyway, and as far as I know even
> if I set the text so that it can be resized in those areas, the login
> boxes will stay
> the same size. I thought of this because a visually impared man who I
> used to work with, actually adjusted his screen resoloution to make pages
> easier to read, so not just text gets bigger, everything does (meaning
> less content shows on screen).
>
> Regards,
> C.B.
Not to harp on a point, but I have seen login and password boxes that were
very small and very big. Both have been annoying. When I am looking at
your page in my maximized window, I have about 2500 pixels in width. Did
you take that into account when you designed the login section of the page,
knowing that one day I would come along and want to login? How small will
that little box be?
Then again, I may just be checking out your site sitting at the airport
waiting for a flight. I'll have my old handheld with me, the one with the
160x160 black & white display. I could really learn to hate your huge
login and password box.
Then again, if you let me set the font size, I will see it all easily and
without frustration. On a side note, I don't own a handheld, and my
maximized viewport is actually closer to 2550 pixels.
I hope this helps,
Carolyn
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Carolyn Marenger
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